Coordination Compounds

Question

Why outer octahedral complexes are celled high spin complexes?

Answer

octahedral) complex in which the d- orbital used are from the outer orbits are called outer octahedral compound complex. –(sp3d2)
As no pairing occurs in these complexes, they can have many unpaired electrons (from 1 to 5) and hence large value of magnetic moment. Therefore called high spin complexes.

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