Nitric oxide orbitals involved

A second illustrative example of the utility of TRPES and TRCIS for studying complex molecular photodissociation dynamics that involve multiple electronic state is the case of the weakly bound cis-planar C2V nitric oxide dimer [174], The weak (Do = 710cm-1) 1 A ground-state covalent bond is formed by the pairing of two singly occupied ji orbitals, one from each NO(X2II) monomer. The very intense UV absorption spectrum of the NO dimer appears... 

Reactions which involve addition of an electron to produce NO . This species is produced when nitric oxide is bubbled into a solution of potassium in liquid ammonia (15). Although on the basis of molecular orbital theory a para-... 

The nitric oxide molecule has one electron in an antibonding molecular orbital this electron is fairly easily lost (the ionization potential of NO is 9.4 eV) to give the nitrosonium ion, NO, which has a shorter bond length (1.062 A) than nitric oxide (1.151 A). We may consider the process of coordination of a nitric oxide molecule to a transition metal atom to involve the transfer of the antibonding electron from NO to the metal atom... 

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