Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Experimentally determined oxygen-oxygen bond lengths in are found to be the same and the bond length is greater than that of a (double bond) but less than that of a single 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 but more than that of a single bond .
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- A
Statement I is true but Statement II is false
- B
Statement I is false but Statement II is true
- C
Both Statement I and Statement II are false
- D
Both Statement I and Statement II are true