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Coordination Compounds
The crystal field model is successful in explaining the formation,
structures, colour and magnetic properties of coordination compounds
to a large extent However, from the assumptions that the ligands are
point charges, it follows that anionic ligands should exert the greatest
splitting effect The anionic ligands actually are found at the low end
of the spectrochemical series Further, it does not take into account
the covalent character of bonding between the ligand and the central
atom