This document discusses several theories for describing the electronic structure of coordination complexes, including Crystal Field Theory (CFT), Ligand Field Theory (LFT), and Molecular Orbital Theory (MOT). It covers topics like ligand field splitting, magnetic properties, Jahn-Teller effect, hybridization, and the 18 electron rule. CFT was developed in 1929 to describe the effects of ligands on transition metal complexes. LFT further improved upon CFT by considering the interactions in terms of metal-ligand bonding.