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Justhanging
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Homework Statement
What determines the order of the Molecular orbitals in heterodiatomics?
The Attempt at a Solution
In my book, I have NO with an order of
1s 2s 3s 1p 2p 4s
Where s means sigma and p means pi.
Also sometimes I see in the book the ordering being 1sigma, 1sigma*(antibonding) instead of 1sigma, 2 sigma like in NO. Is this difference caused by homodiatomics versus heterodiatomics?
I know the order of homodiatomic MO but I don't know how to find it for heterodiatomics. Can someone clarify this? Maybe its a convention or something.