Ligand field theory, introduced in 1935 and built from molecular orbital theory, can handle a broader range of complexes and can explain complexes in which the interactions are covalent.
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Hans Bethe used characters of point group operations in his study of ligand field theory in 1929, and Eugene Wigner used group theory to explain the selection rules of atomic spectroscopy.
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There he did work in transition metal chemistry, published several peer-reviewed journal articles and wrote a textbook entitled " Transition Metal Chemistry : Ligand Field Theory " ( 1960 ).
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A novel solution chemistry was discovered that led, for example, to an understanding, on the basis of ligand field theory, of complex ions and coordination complexes in these highly ionic liquids.
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This was an important factor contributing to the acceptance of crystal field theory, the first theory to successfully account for the thermodynamic, spectroscopic and magnetic properties of complexes of the transition metal ions and precursor to ligand field theory.
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In 1967 Pearson and Fred Basolo, his colleague at Northwestern wrote the influential monograph " Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions ", which integrated concepts from ligand field theory and physical organic chemistry and signaled a shift from descriptive coordination chemistry to a more quantitative science.
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Taube felt that a " primary flaw " with his correlation between electron configuration and ligand substitution was that it was described mainly in terms of valence bond theory, as crystal field theory and ligand field theory were not well established when he published his work in 1952.
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With regard to a ligand field and ligand field theory, the change in spin state is a transition from a low spin ( LS ) ground state electron configuration to a high spin ( HS ) ground state electron configuration of the metal s d atomic orbitals ( AOs ), or vice versa.
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The first d electron count ( special version of electron configuration ) with the possibility of holding a high spin or low spin state is octahedral d 4 since it has more than the 3 electrons to fill the non bonding d orbitals according to ligand field theory or the stabilized d orbitals according to crystal field splitting.
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According to the model present by ligand field theory, the " n " s orbital is involved in bonding to the ligands and forms a strongly bonding orbital which has predominantly ligand character and the correspondingly strong anti-bonding orbital which is unfilled and usually well above the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital ( LUMO ).
