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How to calculate bond order from molecular orbital diagram?

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In Molecular orbital diagram, we just need to calculate the number of electrons in anti-bonding orbital and bonding orbital, then we can use the formula in order to calculate bond order is:

Bond order = (No. of electrons in anti-bonding MO) - (No. of electrons in bonding MO) / 2

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