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(i) Discuss the nature of bonding in metal carbonyls.

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(i) Discuss the nature of bonding in metal carbonyls.
(ii) Draw gure to show the splitting of d orbitals in an octahedral crystal field and write electronic configuration of Ms+ ion when :

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(i) The metal carbon bond in metal carbonyls possess both o and x character.
The M – C o bond if formed by the   while M – C - bond if
formed by the donation of a pair of electron from filled d-orbital of metal to
antibonding x* orbital of CO.

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