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Grade upto college level Physical Chemistry

The common features among the species CN-, CO and NO+ are
a. bond order three and isoelectronic
b. bond order three and weak field ligards
c. bond order two and p-acceptors
d. isoelectronic and weak field ligands

Profile image of Shane Macguire
12 Years agoGrade upto college level
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Profile image of Arun Kumar
12 Years ago
Hi
Its A.

and bond order is 3 for all that you can check by drawing.
Thanks & Regards, Arun Kumar, Btech,IIT Delhi, Askiitians Faculty
Profile image of UMER IQBAL
9 Years ago
ANSWER=A All have same electrons so are isolectronic σ1s2, σ*1s2 , σ2s2, σ*2s2 , σ2pz2, (π2px2 = π2py2 Thus bond order ½ ( 10 -4 ) = 3