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Past exam of the chemistry course of the year 4 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Paper 2 Section B 20 b ii Solution by
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Using the spin values above and accounting for two metal ions per formula unit,The deviations from 2 indicate spin-orbit coupling and incomplete quenching of orbital angular momentum. The partly filled manifold in Fe and manifold in Ni permit orbital degeneracy in the ideal geometry. Co's high-spin orbital occupation is more orbitally balanced, but mixing with excited ligand-field states still produces a substantial effective shift. These fitted scalar values summarize a thermally averaged response; they do not determine the individual components of an anisotropic g tensor.
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