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Imdadul Haque posted an Question
January 09, 2021 • 20:01 pm 30 points
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Ldentify the order representing increasing t-acidity of the following ligands- cafa, nets, co and cah4 (a) co caf4 < czh4

ldentify the order representing increasing T-acidity of the following ligands- CaFa, NEts, CO and CaH4 (A) CO CaF4 < CzH4

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    Dinesh khalmaniya 1 Best Answer

    option D Explanation- Pi-acidic ligands are ligands that have a relatively low-lying LUMO that has the appropriate symmetry to interact with a d-orbtal on the metal centre and the resultant molecular orbital formed will have pi-symmetry. For instance with CO (a classic pi-acidic ligand). CO is a good pi acceptor (lewis acid) due to empty pi orbitals and a good sigma donor (lewis acid). When bonding to a metal the ligand (in this case CO) sigma donates to an empty d-orbital and the filled d-orbitals of the metal donates to the empty pi* orbitals of CO, back donation.

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