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Which mechanism reduces binding energy within oxygen difluoride, OF2?

A)Hybrid orbital antibonding repulsion
B)Sigma bond non-orthogonality
C)Increased electronegativity stabilization
D)Pi bond conjugation resonance

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Hybrid orbital antibonding repulsion diminishes the binding energy within OF2; it occurs because fluorine's high electronegativity draws electron density, therefore the increased electron density in antibonding orbitals causes repulsion rather than sigma bond formation alone.

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