21.5 Color and Paramagnetism of Complex Ions and Coordination Compounds | General Chemistry

Chad provides a succinct lesson explaining why many coordination compounds are vividly colored and explains how to determine if a complex will be paramagnetic or diamagnetic. The crystal field splitting energy corresponds to the energy of the light absorbed by many transition metal complexes as an electron is promoted from lower energy d orbital to a higher energy d orbital. It also commonly corresponds to the energy of visible light. And if a complex absorbs visible light, it will typically appear to have the complementary color in appearance. Finally, a steadfast rule is provided allowing one to determine which transition metal complexes should be expected to be colored and which to be colorless.
A paramagnetic complex experiences a weak attractive force when moving through a magnetic field resulting from a net spin due to the presence of unpaired electrons. So if a transition metal in a complex has unpaired electrons it will be paramagnetic. But if all the electrons are paired up there is no net spin and the species will experience a very, very slight repulsion in a magnetic field and is said to be diamagnetic. Chad reviews how to fill in the d electrons based upon the type of coordination complex (octahedral/low spin, octahedral/high spin, tetrahedral, or square planar) to determine if and how many unpaired electrons may be present.
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00:00 Lesson Introduction
00:26 Color of Transition Metal Complexes
06:53 Paramagnetic vs Diamagnetic
09:17 Sc^3+: Colorless and Diamagnetic
10:32 Cu^+: Colorless and Diamagnetic
12:06 Fe^2+ (low spin): : Colored and Diamagnetic
14:30 Fe^2+ (high spin): Colored and Paramagnetic
15:53 Cr^3+: Colored and Paramagnetic
17:21 FeF6^3- (weak field): Colored and Paramagnetic
19:19 Ni^2+ (square planar): Colored and Diamagnetic
20:12 Spectrochemical Series
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    How can I know if the coordination compound is paramagnetic or diamagnetic if only its formula is given? e.g. [Ni(CN)4]2- , [Ni(NH3)4]2+ . Anyone??

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    7 ай бұрын

    You could write out the electron configuration and as a general rule if there are odd numbers of electrons there are unpaired = paramagnetic, an even numbers of electrons all electrons are paired = diamagnetic but there are exceptions

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