For each of the following ions, draw diagrams (on a piece of paper), like the one to the right below, to show orbital occupancies for both weak and strong octahedral fields. Indicate (on the table below) the total number of unpaired electrons in each case.

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For each of the following ions, draw diagrams (on a piece of paper), like the one to the right below, to show orbital occupancies for both weak and strong octahedral fields. Indicate (on the table below) the total number of unpaired electrons in each case.



  Ion # Unpaired
Weak field
# Unpaired
Strong field
    
(a) Mo4+    
(b) Co4+    
(c) Mo3+    
(d) Mo5+    
(e) Fe2+    

 

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