Ligand-Field Parameters

This volume was originally published in 1973, it is concerned with the nature of the ligand-field parameters used to describe the electronic properties of transition metal complexes having cubic and lower symmetries.

M. Gerloch (Author), R. C. Slade (Author)

9780521105668, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2009

248 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.37 kg

This volume was originally published in 1973. The nature of the non-symmetry determined aspects of ligand-field theory receives inadequate treatment in most texts. This book is concerned with the nature of the ligand-field parameters used to describe the electronic properties of transition metal complexes having cubic and lower symmetries. These radial parameters constitute the non-symmetry-determined part of ligand-field theory. Symmetry-based properties are discussed here only to emphasize the separate roles of splitting factors and symmetry. The reader is assumed to be familiar with the usual approach to ligand-field theory and with elementary group theory.

1. Symmetry versus splitting parameters
2. The crystal-field formalism
3. Interelectron repulsion parameters
4. Radical parameters for angularly-distorted systems
5. Radical parametres for quadrate symmetry
6. The nature and calculation of 10Dq
7. A crystal-field approach to radical parameters
8. Semi-empirical molecular-orbital approaches
9. The Nephelauxetic effect.

Subject Areas: Chemistry [PN]