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Q. Bond order and magnetic moment of $CO^+$ is

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

Solution:

HOMO of CO is a $σ$-non-bonding orbital with a fair degree of antibonding character. Loss of one electron lowers the anti-bonding electron number.