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Grade 12th passPhysical Chemistry

Sir, how to calculate nodal planes in molecular orbital in pi2Px, pi2Py, pi2Pz?

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9 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Bhavya
9 Years ago
Dear student
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In this diagram we can clearly understand that the region or plane where no boundary of orbital is coming(i.e. electron density is zero) becomes nodal plane since the probability of finding electron here becomes zero.