Observing the strength of crystal field splitting by different ligands, I drew up the following: Most of the members in the series are ligands where the donor atom is nitrogen, oxygen or carbon. If we consider only those can a parallel bases on the HSAB principle be drawn i.e. carbon which is softer and more […]
- Tags I drew up the following: Most of the members in the series are ligands where the donor atom is nitrogen, it is followed by ligands having nitrogen, N and O donor atoms, Observing the strength of crystal field splitting by different ligands, oxygen or carbon. If we consider only those can a parallel bases on the HSAB principle be drawn i.e. carbon which is softer and more polarisa, PPh3 where phosphorus is the donor atom is a stronger field ligand than the comparatively harder sulpur atom (in ligands like SCN- or S2-) in, they are in the same period. Similarly, which is comparatively softer than oxygen but harder than carbon. It may be argued that the halogens like iodine and bromine which are very