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  2. Unpaired electron - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired electron has a magnetic dipole moment, while an electron pair has no dipole moment because the two electrons have opposite spins so their magnetic dipole fields are in opposite directions and cancel. Thus an atom with unpaired electrons acts as a magnetic dipole and interacts with a magnetic field. Only elements with unpaired ...

  3. Multiplicity (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    The highest occupied orbital energy level of dioxygen is a pair of antibonding π* orbitals. In the ground state of dioxygen, this energy level is occupied by two electrons of the same spin, as shown in the molecular orbital diagram. The molecule, therefore, has two unpaired electrons and is in a triplet state.

  4. Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity - Wikipedia

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    A high multiplicity state is therefore the same as a high-spin state. The lowest-energy state with maximum multiplicity usually has unpaired electrons all with parallel spin. Since the spin of each electron is 1/2, the total spin is one-half the number of unpaired electrons, and the multiplicity is the number of unpaired electrons + 1.

  5. Hund's rules - Wikipedia

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    As an example, consider the ground state of silicon.The electron configuration of Si is 1s 2 2s 2 2p 6 3s 2 3p 2 (see spectroscopic notation).We need to consider only the outer 3p 2 electrons, for which it can be shown (see term symbols) that the possible terms allowed by the Pauli exclusion principle are 1 D , 3 P , and 1 S.

  6. Electron configuration - Wikipedia

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    For example, the electron configuration of the neon atom is 1s 2 2s 2 2p 6, meaning that the 1s, 2s, and 2p subshells are occupied by two, two, and six electrons, respectively. Electronic configurations describe each electron as moving independently in an orbital , in an average field created by the nuclei and all the other electrons.

  7. Photooxygenation - Wikipedia

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    The highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of O 2 is a pair of degenerate antibonding π orbitals, π 2px * and π 2py *, which are both singly occupied by spin unpaired electrons. [4] These electrons are the cause of O 2 being a triplet diradical in the ground state (indicated as 3 O 2).

  8. HOMO and LUMO - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the HOMO and LUMO of a molecule. Each circle represents an electron in an orbital; when light of a high enough frequency is absorbed by an electron in the HOMO, it jumps to the LUMO. 3D model of the highest occupied molecular orbital in CO 2 3D model of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital in CO 2

  9. Molecular orbital diagram - Wikipedia

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    The filled MO highest in energy is called the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the empty MO just above it is then the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO). The electrons in the bonding MO's are called bonding electrons and any electrons in the antibonding orbital would be called antibonding electrons. The reduction in energy ...