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4.1: Introduction to Ligand Field Theory and Crystal Field Theory

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    This worksheet is confidential because it is based on Copyrighted material that was published in the Journal of American Chemical Society.

    If you are a student in this course, please access this worksheet by clicking here (Worksheet 4.1). You have access to this document only if you are a Saint Mary's College student. If you are not a student in this course, but would like to see this content, the original version is available in the Journal of Chemical Education.1

    Attribution

    1. Worksheet 4.1 was adapted from Day 1 of A Guided Inquiry Activity for Teaching Ligand Field Theory: J. Chem. Educ. 2015, 92, 8, 1369-1372. Publication Date:June 17, 2015. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00019.


    4.1: Introduction to Ligand Field Theory and Crystal Field Theory is shared under a not declared license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by LibreTexts.

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