how orbitals of central metaldegenerate due to presence of strong as well asweak ligands?
Suraj Dixit , 8 Years ago
Grade 12
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Bhavya
Last Activity: 8 Years ago
Dear student The orbitals of central metal are degenrate in ground state but as a ligand approaches, the degeneracy is lost and the orbitals split up as eg and t2g.This loss of degeneracy is due to repulsion between lone pair of ligands and electrons of central metal.
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