Timeline for Octahedral Crystal Field Splitting Orbital Energy Levels
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| May 15, 2020 at 10:06 | comment | added | Justanotherchemist | You are not creating nor destroying energy, you are just moving electron density into metal centered orbitals that do not lie in the path of the approaching ligands. To do this those orbitals that are in the way have to be higher in energy so the other ones are filled first. But if you lift one you have to lower another one to conserve energy, that's the lever principle. | |
| May 15, 2020 at 7:43 | comment | added | Ian Bush | "The total energy of the d orbitals before and after the application of the octahedral field has to be the same". Why? | |
| May 15, 2020 at 7:11 | history | answered | porphyrin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |