How is the modern chemical bond described?
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Explanation:
The modern chemical bond is conceived to be a region of high electron density between 2 positively charged atomic nuclei. Nuclear-orbital attraction allows close approach of the nuclei to each other thereby effecting the bond.......For every bonding orbital there is also an anti-bonding orbital formed, in which electron density diminishes to zero BETWEEN the nuclei, and can thus support no bonding interaction. Generally this so-called
Because electrons fill the orbitals on the basis of lowest energy, for a simple molecule, i.e. dihydrogen, this means that the bonding orbital is FILLED, while the antibonding orbital is vacant.
