Given below are two statements: Statement (I): Experimental…

Chemistry Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure JEE Main 2025 Single Correct MCQ

Published on: August 12, 2026

Given below are two statements:

Statement (I): Experimentally determined oxygen-oxygen bond lengths in the are found to be same and the bond length is greater than that of a (double bond) but less than that of a single bond.

Statement (II) : The strong lone pair-lone pair repulsion between oxygen atoms is solely responsible for the fact that the bond length in ozone is smaller than that of a double bond but more than that of a single bond .

choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Both Statement I and Statement II are false

Statement I is false but Statement II is true

Statement I is true but Statement II is false

Both Statement I and Statement II are true

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The correct answer is:

Bond	Bond order
	1.0
	0
	1.5

Bond length
Order of bond length
Statement is true.
Lone pair-lone pair repulsion between O-atoms is not solely responsible for the correct order of O-O bond length. Bond order also should be considered.