Some of the most important inorganic chemistry textbooks make a mistake when including the pairing energy in expressions of the crystal field stabilization energy of octahedral d6 (and d7, d8, d9 , and d10 ) complexes.
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Citation
Tudela, David. J. Chem. Educ.1999 76 134.
Keywords
Inorganic Chemistry; Coordination Chemistry; Textbooks; crystal field theory
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