Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry
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Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry
Weak Field Ligand
A ligand that produces only a small crystal field splitting, so electrons occupy upper orbitals rather than pairing.
Inorganic & Coordination ChemistryWerner's Theory
The 1893 theory proposing that metals exhibit two types of valence and that ligands occupy fixed positions in space around the metal.