Sciencegeeknm Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Hi Everyone, I have been looking into the world of octahedral organometallic complexes Molybdenum hexacarbonyl is a white colour and is a d6 compound. The carbonyl ligands are classsed as strong field so would induce a large octahedral splitting of the d orbitals resulting in low spin In low spin the six electrons would completely fill up the 3 t2g orbitals and there would be no unpaired electrons I am right in thinking that because there are no unpaired electrons to make a transition up into the eg orbitals after a photon of light is added, no colour frequency of light is absorbed and therefore all colours are reflected back as white or colourless? Kind Regards Nick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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