Explores the Spectrochemical Series for metals and ligands, Crystal Field Splitting, Jahn-Teller distortion, and bonding interactions in coordination compounds.
Covers coordination numbers, common ligands, and preferred geometries in coordination chemistry, emphasizing the spatial distribution between ligands and the role of d⁸ electron configurations.
Explores Valence Bond Theory, hybridization, orbital overlap, molecular shapes, and bond formation, emphasizing sigma and pi bonds' significance in chemical bonding.