Question

All of the following statements concerning crystal field theory are true EXCEPT Group of answer choices in an isolated atom or ion, the five d orbitals have identical energy. low-spin complexes contain the maximum number of unpaired electrons. in low-spin complexes, electrons are concentrated in the dxy, dyz, and dxz orbitals. the energy difference between d orbitals often corresponds to an energy of visible light. the crystal field splitting is larger in low-spin complexes than high-spin complexes.

Answer 1

Answer:

low-spin complexes contain the maximum number of unpaired electrons.

Explanation:

In the crystal field theory, the magnitude of crystal field splitting and the pairing energy determines whether a complex will be low spin or high spin.

Low spin complexes often have greater magnitude of crystal field splitting energy than low spin complexes.

High spin complexes have maximum number of unpaired electrons(most of the electrons are unpaired) while low spin complexes have a minimum number of unpaired electrons in a complex(most of the electrons are paired).