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Low-spin [Fe(NO 2) 6] 3− crystal field diagram. The Δ splitting of the d orbitals plays an important role in the electron spin state of a coordination complex. Three factors affect Δ: the period (row in periodic table) of the metal ion, the charge of the metal ion, and the field strength of the complex's ligands as described by the spectrochemical series.
A consequence of the much smaller size of Δ T results in (almost) all tetrahedral complexes being high spin and therefore the change in the ground state term seen on the X-axis for octahedral d 4-d 7 diagrams is not required for interpreting spectra of tetrahedral complexes.
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Fe(acac) 3 is an octahedral complex with six equivalent Fe-O bonds with bond distances of about 2.00 Å. The regular geometry is consistent with a high-spin Fe 3+ core with sp3d2 hybridization. As the metal orbitals are all evenly occupied the complex is not subject to Jahn-Teller distortions and thus adopts a D 3 molecular symmetry.
Orgel diagrams will, however, show the number of spin allowed transitions, along with their respective symmetry designations. In an Orgel diagram, the parent term (P, D, or F) in the presence of no ligand field is located in the center of the diagram, with the terms due to that electronic configuration in a ligand field at each side.
Complexes such as this are called "low spin". For example, NO 2 − is a strong-field ligand and produces a large Δ. The octahedral ion [Fe(NO 2) 6] 3−, which has 5 d-electrons, would have the octahedral splitting diagram shown at right with all five electrons in the t 2g level. This low spin state therefore does not follow Hund's rule.
d-orbital splitting scheme for low- and high spin octahedral Fe(III) complex Iron(III) is a d 5 center, meaning that the metal has five "valence" electrons in the 3d orbital shell. The number and type of ligands bound to iron(III) determine how these electrons arrange themselves.
Complexes which are d 8 high-spin are usually octahedral (or tetrahedral) while low-spin d 8 complexes are generally 16-electron square planar complexes. For first row transition metal complexes such as Ni 2+ and Cu + also form five-coordinate 18-electron species which vary from square pyramidal to trigonal bipyramidal .