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Grade 9Physical Chemistry

Discuss the nature of bonding in metal carbonyls.

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12 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Sunil Kumar FP
11 Years ago
the metal carbon bond in a metal carbonyl has both sigma and oi character.a sima bond is formed when a metal carbonyl carbon donates alone pair of electron to the vacant d orbital of the metal.a pi bond is formed by the donaton of electron from the filled d orbital of metal to the antibonding.thus a synergic effect is created due to metal -ligand bonding.