Coordination Compounds

Formulas are organized based on their importance in the CAT exam.
1 Spin-Only Magnetic Moment
2 Crystal Field Splitting in Octahedral Field
3 Biological Coordination Systems
4 Hybridization and Geometry for Coordination Number 5
5 Factors Affecting Crystal Field Splitting Magnitude ($$\Delta_o$$)
6 Complementary Colors & Absorption Spectra
7 Metal Carbonyls & Synergic Bonding - Bond Order & Vibrational Frequency ($$\nu_{\text{CO}}$$) Trends
8 Crystal Field Stabilization Energy (Octahedral)
9 High-Spin vs Low-Spin Complexes
10 Spectrochemical Series
11 Stability Constant
12 Charge of Complex Ion
13 The Intermediate Ligand Pairing Traps (Under CFT)
14 Effective Atomic Number (EAN)
15 Optical Isomers
16 Limitations of VBT
17 Crystal Field Splitting Energy ($$\Delta_o$$- Octahedral)
18 Unpaired Electrons from Magnetic Moment
19 IUPAC Nomenclature -Alphabetical Ligand Naming Rule
20 Facial ($$fac$$) and Meridional ($$mer$$) Isomerism
21 VBT - Inner vs. Outer Orbital Complex (Coordination Number 6)
22 Spectrochemical Series
23 Coordination Complex Stability - Overall vs. Stepwise Formation Constants
24 Cis-Trans & Enantiomeric Profiling Matrix
25 VBT - The Core Ligand-Strength Benchmark
26 Jahn-Teller Distortion (Tetragonal Distortion)
27 Coordination Number
28 Structures of Homoleptic Metal Carbonyls
29 Crystal Field Splitting Energy ($$\Delta_t$$ - Tetrahedral)
30 Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer (MLCT) & Synergic Bonding
31 Structural Isomerism Matrix
32 The Net Charge Back-Bonding Trends
33 Werner's Theory (Primary vs. Secondary Valency)
34 VBT - Spin-Only Magnetic Moment Calculation
35 Extraction of Metals (MacArthur-Forrest Cyanide Process)
36 Brown Ring Test
37 The Chelate & Macrocyclic Stability Effect
38 Estimation of Hardness of Water
39 Irving-Williams Stability Order for Transition Metals
40 Effective Atomic Number (EAN Rule)
41 Optical Activity Condition
42 Hybridization and Geometry
43 VBT - Geometry vs. Hybridization (Coordination Number 4)
44 Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer (LMCT)
45 Relation between $$\Delta_t$$ and $$\Delta_o$$
46 VBT Anomalies & Exceptions
47 IUPAC Nomenclature Latin-Suffix Trap
48 Geometrical Isomers in Square Planar Complexes
49 Geometrical Isomers in Octahedral Complexes