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← ScienceWhich instability arises when frontier molecular orbitals hybridize?
A)Jahn-Teller distortion occurs✓
B)Debye relaxation increases
C)Electronegativity differences vanish
D)Effective nuclear charge decreases
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A Jahn-Teller distortion results because interactions lead to degenerate electronic states in non-linear molecules; the molecule distorts to remove degeneracy, therefore lowering overall energy rather than maintaining its initial symmetry.
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