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Author: Steven S. Zumdahl, Susan A. Zumdahl, Donald J. DeCoste
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Chapter 9, Problem 54E
A Lewis structure obeying the octet rule can be drawn for O2 as follows:
Use the molecular orbital energy-level diagram for O2 to show that the above Lewis structure corresponds to an excited state.
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