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Introduction to CFT

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The orbitals having lower energy in tetrahedral complexes according to CFT are ?

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Solution

The splitting of d-orbitals in tetrahedral complexes is given as-

$∴$ lower energy was shown by $d x^{2} - y^{2}, d z^{2} .$
Hence, option (d) is correct.

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