Coordination complex analyser
Give a coordination complex by its formula or its name and get what ISC Chemistry asks about it: the IUPAC name, oxidation state, coordination number, hybridisation and shape, unpaired electrons and magnetic moment, inner or outer orbital, crystal field splitting and isomers - with the valence bond box diagram.
Answer
[CoF6]3−
- IUPAC name
- hexafluoridocobaltate(III)
- Hybridisation
- sp3d2
- Shape
- octahedral
- Oxidation state of Co
- +3
- Coordination number
- 6
- Unpaired electrons
- 4
- Magnetic
- paramagnetic, μ = 4.9 BM
- Inner or outer orbital
- outer
- Spin
- high
- Crystal field stabilisation
- -0.4 Δ
- Isomerism
- none
Valence bond picture
Free Co3+ ion (d6)
↑↓↑↑↑↑3d4s4p
In the complex (sp3d2; ×× = a ligand’s electron pair)
↑↓↑↑↑↑3d××4s××××××4p××××4d
Crystal field splitting
In an octahedral field the d orbitals split into t2g (lower) and eg (upper): t2g4 eg2. CFSE = (-0.4 × 4 + 0.6 × 2) Δo = -0.4 Δo.
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