Square Planar, Tetrahedral ML4 Complexes, and Electron Counting

Square Planar, Tetrahedral ML4 Complexes and Electron Counting 

This chapter is a continuation of the last in that the orbitals of our other molecular building block, a square planar ML4 complex, are developed. This is a little more complicated than the octahedral case however, we shall need to use the orbitals of both extensively in subsequent chapters. From the octahedral and square planar splitting patterns a generalized bonding model can be constructed for transition metal complexes. This, in turn, leads to the topic of electron counting. Finally, one distortion that takes a square planar molecule to a tetrahedron is discussed. 

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SQUARE PLANAR, TETRAHEDRAL ML4 COMPLEXES AND ELECTRON COUNTING... 

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