Magnetic susceptibility experimental determination

The multiplicity can be determined from the experimental values of the magnetic susceptibility, the magnetic moment in Bohr magnetons being equal to 2 VS(S + l), in which S is the spin quantum number. (The multiplicity is 2S + 1.) The moments for 22 and 62 are 1.73 and 5.91, respectively. The experimental values for K3Fe(CN)6 and (NH jFeF are 2.0 and 5.88, respectively, so that the bonds in the [FefCN ] ion are electron-pair bonds, and those in [FeFe]a are ionic. 

At ordinary temperatures die magnetic susceptibility is given approximate This relation was determined experimentally by Piene Curie. Preach physicist... 

Ring currents cannot be directly determined by experimental methods. However, comparison of experimental values of magnetic susceptibilities and their exaltations and anisotropies as well as of H-NMR chemical shifts with the respective data calculated from the ring current model points to the adequacy of this model for the interpretation of experimental results. The magnetic susceptibility associated with the ring current / (83BCJ1853), known as the London susceptibility, is given by... 

All the same, the quantitative determination of the aromaticity and antiaromaticity from the ring current model may be complicated by at least two problems. First, experimentally observable values of magnetic susceptibilities and their exaltations and anisotropies as well as the H-NMR chemical shifts are not necessarily determined exclusively by ring currents hence, all other effects have to be identified and removed. Naturally, for this model to work, the contribution by the ring current must be predominant. Another problem is that the calculated results on ring current intensities for molecules from the diatropic-paratropic border area may vary qualitatively depending on the method of calculation (80PAC1541). 

The determination of n from measurement of peff is the most familiar application of magnetic susceptibility measurements to inorganic chemists. To the extent that the spin-only formula is valid, it is possible to obtain the oxidation state of the central atom in a complex. Thus an iron complex with a peff of 5.9B.M. certainly contains Fe(III) (high-spin d5) and not Fe(II). The diamagnetism of AgO rules out its formulation as silver(II) oxide, because Ag2+ has an odd number of electrons (d9) and should be paramagnetic it contains Ag(I) and Ag(III), in equal amounts. There are, however, a number of pitfalls, especially if reliance is placed on a single measurement at room temperature. The Curie law is rarely obeyed within the limits of experimental error. This means that the measured peff is somewhat temperature-dependent. A number of factors can be responsible for deviations from ideal Curie (or even Curie-Weiss) behaviour, and/or from the spin-only formula. 

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