Lecture

Crystal Field Theory: Spectrochemical Series

Description

This lecture covers the Spectrochemical Series for metals and ligands, explaining the influence of ligands on the electronic configuration of metal ions in coordination complexes. It delves into the Crystal Field Splitting for different environments, such as tetrahedral and octahedral, and discusses the Jahn-Teller distortion in transition metal ions. The lecture also explores the impact of ligand field strength on the spin state of metal complexes and provides general rules for understanding the bonding interactions in coordination compounds.

About this result
This page is automatically generated and may contain information that is not correct, complete, up-to-date, or relevant to your search query. The same applies to every other page on this website. Please make sure to verify the information with EPFL's official sources.

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.