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The bond order of Li2 is 2.

As of 2018, the literature has not yet reached a consensus regarding the bond order of lithium. Several groups have reported values ranging from 1 to 2. A 2015 paper by K. C. Visweswara rao an D. P. Somasundaram in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics reports a bond order of 2 based on molecular dynamics simulations. In 2017, the same authors published a follow-up paper in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, in which they report a bond order of 1 based on ab initio calculations. A 2017 paper by P. M. Roterman and coworkers in The Journal of Chemical Physics reports a bond order of 2 based on theory and experiment combined. In 2018, E. Duru and coworkers also report a bond order of 2 based on ab initio calculations in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

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