Lecture 28: Transition Metals: Crystal Field Theory Part I

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Introduction to Crystal Field Theory Crystal Field Theory: Octahedral Case Spectrochemical Series: the Ligand to the Metal Matters

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Crystal field theory was developed to explain the special features of transition metal complexes, including their beautiful colors and their magnetic properties. In part I of this topic, we consider d-block coordination complexes that have octahedral geometry, and see whether we can change the color of a paper flower dipped in an octahedral cobalt chloride complex just by adding water.

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