When sodium and oxygen react, one of the products obtained is sodium peroxide, Na2O2. The anion in this compound is the peroxide ion, O22- . Write the electron configuration for this ion in molecular orbital terms, and then compare it with the electron configuration of the O2 molecule with respect to the following criteria: (i) magnetic character (ii) net number of sigma and pi bonds (iii) bond order (iv) oxygen–oxygen bond length

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When sodium and oxygen react, one of the products obtained is sodium peroxide, Na2O2. The anion in this compound is the peroxide ion, O22- . Write the electron configuration for this ion in molecular orbital terms, and then compare it with the electron configuration of the O2 molecule with respect to the following criteria:

(i) magnetic character
(ii) net number of sigma and pi bonds
(iii) bond order
(iv) oxygen–oxygen bond length 

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