Total number of antibonding electrons present in $\mathrm{O}_2$ will be

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$\begin{aligned} & \mathrm{O}_2(\sigma 1 s)^2\left(\sigma^* 1 sight)^2(\sigma 2 s)^2\left(\sigma^* 2 sight)^2\left(\sigma 2 p_zight)^2\left(\pi 2 p_x^2=\pi 2 p_y^2ight) \ & \left(\pi^* 2 p_x{ }^1=\pi^* 2 p_y^1ight)\end{aligned}$ Thus, there are total 6 electrons in antibonding orbitals

Total number of antibonding electrons present in $\mathrm{O}_2$ will be

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