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Saturday, December 26, 2020

Which orbital has much overlap capacity?

When internuclear distance is fixed then overlapping extent of atomic orbitals depends on directional nature of orbitals. And higher the directional nature of orbitals more stronger will be extent of overlapping and more stronger bond will form
Order of extent of over lapping given as:
          2p-2p > 2s-2p > 2s-2s

Why the extent of overlap is more in 2p-3d than 2p-3p?

The order of overlapping strength of orbitals is given as:

2pπ-2pπ>2pπ-3dπ>2pπ-3pπ>3pπ-3pπ.
The strength of π-bond is directly proportional to the overlapping strength of orbitals because on greater overlapping distance between two nuclei decreases and bond strength increase hence order of π-bond also given as:

2pπ-2pπ>2pπ-3dπ>2pπ-3pπ>3pπ-3pπ.

2pπ-2pπ, π-bonding is stronger than 2pπ-3dπ, π-bonding due to the lower energy gap (n=2) between them.
The importance comparison is in between 2pπ-3dπ and 2pπ-3pπ. The overlapping strength of 2pπ-3dπ  is more than 2pπ-3pπ this is due to fact that , the 3d orbitals have two lobes which are more bent than 3p orbitals. That why overlapping strength increase.