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Capstone: Two Bonding Models Applied to One Molecule

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This capstone applies valence bond theory and molecular orbital theory to the same molecule, nitrogen monoxide, NO, showing what each model explains and what each leaves unexplained.

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Concluding one model is flatly correct and the other flatly wrong, rather than that each has a domain where it is the more useful tool, contradicts what this course's whole treatment of the two models has shown since Chem 1090.