Bond order of a species is `2.5` and the number of electons in its bonding molecular orbital is found to be 8 The no. of electons in its antibonding molecular orbital is

A bonding molecular orbital is produced by

Explain bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals.

According to molecular orbital theory molecules are said to be stable if the number of electrons in bonding molecular orbitals is …………… the number of electrons in antibonding molecular orbitals.