. Explain why octahedral coordination complexes withthree and eight d electrons on the central metal atom areparticularly stable. Under what circumstances would youexpect complexes with five or six d electrons on the central metal atom to be particularly stable?

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Coordination Chemistry

It is a part of chemistry, in which the study of compounds that have central atoms surrounded by molecules or ions, known as ligand, is known as coordination chemistry.