Talk:Transition metal nitrate complex
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Discussion of field strength of nitrate ligand?
[edit]This should surely mention a position in the spectrochemical series?? My lecture notes say it's between Cl- and F-, implying it's a pi-donor ligand, which broadly matches what I'd expect; but I don't have a source and I don't feel confident to edit the article itself. Charlielutra24 (talk) 10:59, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- I guess that you are referring to bidentate nitrate. Cobalt(III) nitrate is low-spin, whereas [CoF6]3- is high spin. So in that respect bidentate nitrate is stronger sigma donor than F-.
- Wikipedia has a series of articles on "transition metal complexes of ..." None of them mentions the spectrochemical series. I'm not sure if anyone considers that parameter as relevant to much contemporary chemistry (structure and reactivity), but maybe I'm not clued in. This series of articles does need some indicator of ligand electronic properties, HSAB or something like that. So I hope that you decide to help out.--Smokefoot (talk) 14:57, 11 April 2025 (UTC)