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SVEN [57.7K]
3 years ago
15

Which of the following electronic transitions would emit the lowest energy photon?

Chemistry
1 answer:
anyanavicka [17]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

i will think c-n=3 to NM=2

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Less electrons paired in the same orbital
More electrons with parallel spins in separate orbitals
Pertinent valence orbitals NOT close enough in energy for electron pairing to be stabilized enough by large orbital size
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A lot of people want to say that it's because a "half-filled subshell" increases stability, which is a reason, but not necessarily the only reason. However, for chromium, it's the significant reason.
It's also worth mentioning that these reasons are after-the-fact; chromium doesn't know the reasons we come up with; the reasons just have to be, well, reasonable.
The reasons I can think of are:
Minimization of coulombic repulsion energy
Maximization of exchange energy
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COULOMBIC REPULSION ENERGY
Coulombic repulsion energy is the increased energy due to opposite-spin electron pairing, in a context where there are only two electrons of nearly-degenerate energies.
So, for example...
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When you have something like this with parallel electron spins...
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↓
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It becomes important to incorporate the exchange energy.
EXCHANGE ENERGY
Exchange energy is the reduction in energy due to the number of parallel-spin electron pairs in different orbitals.
It's a quantum mechanical argument where the parallel-spin electrons can exchange with each other due to their indistinguishability (you can't tell for sure if it's electron 1 that's in orbital 1, or electron 2 that's in orbital 1, etc), reducing the energy of the configuration.
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↓
−−−−−

↑
↓
−−−−− is lower in energy than
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↓
−−−−−

↓
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−−−−−

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↓
−−−−−
To make it easier for us, a crude way to "measure" exchange energy is to say that it's equal to
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e
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e
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e
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lower when exchange energy is high (i.e. many electrons parallel and unpaired), meaning pairing is favorable
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4
s
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3
d
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↓
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↓
−−−−−

↑
↓
−−−−−

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↓
−−−−−

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↓
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compared to
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↓
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↓
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↓
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is more stable.
For simplicity, if we assume the
4
s
and
3
d
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The first configuration has
Π
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e
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4
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2
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4
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3
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,
3
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,
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5
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The second configuration has
Π
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c
+
6
Π
e
.
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↔
2
,
1
↔
3
,
1
↔
4
,
2
↔
3
,
2
↔
4
,
3
↔
4
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d
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s
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3
d
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