The MO of the ground state of a heteronuclear diatomic molecule AB is Vmol = CA4A + CB4B If a bonding electron spends 90% of its time in an orbital pA on atom A and 10% of its time in øB on atom B, what are the values of CA and Cg? (Neglect the overlap of the two orbitals.)

The MO of the ground state of a heteronuclear diatomic molecule AB is Vmol = CA4A + CB4B If a bonding electron spends 90% of its time in an orbital pA on atom A and 10% of its time in øB on atom B, what are the values of CA and Cg? (Neglect the overlap of the two orbitals.)

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The MO of the ground state of a heteronuclear diatomic
molecule AB is
Vmol = CA4A + CB4B
If a bonding electron spends 90% of its time in an orbital
pA on atom A and 10% of its time in øB on atom B, what
are the values of CA and Cg? (Neglect the overlap of the
two orbitals.)

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