JEE Main 2025 — Chemical Bonding And Molecular Structure Question with Solution

Given below are two statements :

Statement (I) : Experimentally determined oxygen-oxygen bond lengths in the ${\mathrm{O}}_3$ are found to be same and the bond length is greater than that of a $\mathrm{O}=\mathrm{O}$ (double bond) but less than that of a single $(\mathrm{O}-\mathrm{O})$ bond.

Statement (II) : The strong lone pair-lone pair repulsion between oxygen atoms is solely responsible for the fact that the bond length in ozone is smaller than that of a double bond $(\mathrm{O}=\mathrm{O})$ but more than that of a single bond $(\mathrm{O}-\mathrm{O})$.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :