How Do Three P Orbitals Affect Quantum Energies in Molecules?

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When you get to molecules its a whole different ball game, because your electron orbitals are no longer isolated to the atom, but you must include BOTH atoms. You start to have "bonding" orbitals and "antibonding" orbitals. This is why, for example, the emission spectra of (plain old oxygen) is different than it is for , (ozone), because the electrons in these molecules are allowed different energy levels

Didn't learn that until the day after.