What is the bond order of OF plus?

Answer 1

CO is not a homo-nuclear atom like C2, N2 or even O3, O3 (both these categories are different: with and without 2s-2p mixing).

So there is a large discrepancy in the atomic energy levels of 2s, 2p e- of C and O.As a result, 2p(pi)x, 2p(pi)y and 2p(sigma)z have lower energy than 2s(sigma)*. So the e- lost is from 2s(sigma)*2 and not 2p(sigma)z.

And hence the bond order increases from 3 to 3.5 and not decreases to 2.5 .

(The typical school textbook formula doesn't work for species like CO,CO+ and even NO,NO+ in many situations):-)

Answer 2

In OF^+ the bond order is 2. It would be O=F

Answer 3

This is very easy ............

Answer 4

3