User talk:Bbqucla

MO theory: We are all familiar with how molecular orbital theory and how it works with simple compounds such as diatomic oxygen or nitrogen, even to the heterol atomic bonds, however transition metals are quite different. In order to get into molecular orbital theory about transition metals, one must first realize how it is used in crystal field theory. Crystal field theory can be applied to most transition metal complexes, even though they work fine within a given spectrum, however, they have no reasons or principles that explain why they work. This is where molecular orbital theory comes in. We can see that in crystal field theory, from the perspective of moleular orbitals, that the broken down d-orbitals, which makes up the 5 orbitals in crystal field are actually frontial orbitals in MO. Depending on the imposed field, the d-orbitals can be broken down into different group, which according to Jahn-Teller (degenearte theorm) can be broken down further into sub groups.