What is the difference between bonding, nonbonding, and antibonding orbitals when it comes to bond order and Lewis structures?
1 Answer
Oct 2, 2017
You can see the difference if you look here. I've addressed it in detail there.
When antibonding orbitals get populated, relevant bonds are weakened. When nonbonding orbitals get populated, the result tends to be represented as lone pairs of electrons in the Lewis structure.
