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
[NiCl4]2−
- IUPAC name
- tetrachloridonickelate(II)
- Hybridisation
- sp3
- Shape
- tetrahedral
- Oxidation state of Ni
- +2
- Coordination number
- 4
- Unpaired electrons
- 2
- Magnetic
- paramagnetic, μ = 2.83 BM
- Crystal field stabilisation
- -0.8 Δ
- Isomerism
- none
Valence bond picture
Free Ni2+ ion (d8)
↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↑3d4s4p
In the complex (sp3; ×× = a ligand’s electron pair)
↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↑3d××4s××××××4p
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