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An antibonding orbital is a molecular orbital containing an electron outside the region between the two nuclei. As two atoms approach each other, their electron orbitals begin to overlap. This overlap forms a molecular bond between the two atoms with its own molecular orbital shape.
CHAPTER 14 COVALENT BONDING: ORBITALS The Localized Electron Model and Hybrid Orbitals 9. The valence orbitals of the nonmetals are the s and p orbitals. The lobes of the p orbitals are 90E and 180E apart from each other. If the p orbitals were used to form bonds, then all bond angles shoud be 90E or 180E. This is not the case. In order to explain the observed geometry (bond angles) that molecules exhibit, we need to make up (hybridize) orbitals that point to where the bonded atoms and lone pairs are located.