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1. Subject Chemistry
Paper No and Title (Metal-Ligand Bonding,
Electronic Spectra and Magnetic Properties of Transition
Metal Complexes)
Module No and Title Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Ions
Module 60 60
Principal Investigator Dr. S. Burungale
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Learning Outcomes
2. Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Ions
3. Magnetic Properties of Coordination Complexes: Crystal Field Theory
Spin-Orbit Coupling
4. Orbital Contribution to the Magnetic Moment in Transition Metal Ions
Orbital Contribution from eg Orbital Set
Orbital Contribution from t2g Orbital Set
Orbital Contribution from Excited States
5. Quenching of Orbital Magnetic Moment due to Loss of Orbital Degeneracy
6. Summary
2. 1. Learning Outcomes
After studying this module, you shall be able to
Know about magnetic properties of the transition metal ions.
Know the magnetic properties of coordination complexes on the basis of crystalfield theory
Learn that the magnetic moment of most of the transition metal ions are very close to spin only
magnetic moment S.
Identify the transition metal ions having the magnetic moment higher than spin only magnetic
moment S.
Evaluate the reasons for having the higher magnetic moment.
2. Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Ions
The first transition group elements possess an incomplete inner 3d shell. But for these elements the
incomplete shell is not effectively shielded from external influence. These 3d orbitals are greatly affected
by the ligands such that the rotations of electrons about the nucleus, which are essential for generating the
orbital magnetic moment, get significantly restricted (i.e. L becomes zero). This leads to great difficulty
in estimating the degree of quenching of the orbital contribution to the magnetic moment, but in some
cases the results are actually easier to interpret than are those for the rare earths.
The ions of the first transition series starting from scandium, Sc3+
, ion and ending with zinc, Zn2+
, ion
have progressively 0 to 10 electrons in the 3d shell. The first and last members are diamagnetic but all the
others with intermediate number of electrons are paramagnetic. It might be supposed that these ions
would be alternately paramagnetic and diamagnetic depending on whether they have an odd or an even
number of electrons. But, as for the rare earths are concerned, the ions are all paramagnetic because the
electrons in the incomplete shell tend not to pair off until these are forced to do so. For instance, in the 3d
shell there are 5 orbitals which can accommodate 10 electrons. If 6 electrons are present they will take 1
paired and 4 unpaired place instead of 3 pairs. The 4 unpaired electrons will contribute to the
paramagnetism. It is therefore an easy matter to compute the number of unpaired electron spins in any
given ion. The difficulty that arises is in connection with the orbital contribution.
The orbital moments of these ions are not free to move as they are for the rare earths, and yet, on the other
hand, they may not be entirely quenched. But the best agreement with the experiment is obtained by
completely neglecting the orbital motion. For all the transition metal ions the magnetic moments are
calculated by using following equations
𝜇𝐽 = √𝐽(𝐽 + 1) 𝑔𝛽 …… … …… …… . .(1)
𝜇𝐿+𝑆 = √4𝑆(𝑆 + 1) + 𝐿(𝐿 + 1) 𝛽 … … …… . .(2)
For spin only magnetic moment, L= 0, so that J = S and hence g=2. Therefore,
𝜇𝑆 = √4𝑆(𝑆 + 1) 𝛽 …… …… …… …… .(3)
𝜇𝑆 = √𝑛(𝑛 + 2) 𝛽 … …… … …… …… .(4)
(Where n = number of unpaired electrons)
3. (
l=2 1 0 1 2
Let us calculate J, L+S and S for one transition metal ion
using equation (1), (2) and (3). For example, Cr3+
has d3
configuration, thus,
Figure 1
Total spin quantum number (S) = 1/2 + 1/2+ 1/2 = 3/2
Spin multiplicity (2S+1) = 4
Total angular momentum number (L) = (2×1) + (1×1) + (0×1) = 3
J = L+S, L+S-1,……L-S. i.e.J = 9/2 to 3/2. According to Hund’s rule J =3/2 is chosen for the calculation
of g,
3
𝑔 =
2
+
𝑆(𝑆 + 1) − 𝐿(𝐿 + 1)
2𝐽(𝐽 + 1)
3
𝑔 =
2
+
3/2(3/2 + 1) − 3(3 + 1)
2 × 3/2(3/2 + 1)
Calculation of J,
3
𝑔 =
2
+
15 − 48
= 0.4
30
Calculation of L+S,
𝜇𝐽 = √𝐽(𝐽 + 1) 𝑔 𝐵.𝑀.
𝜇𝐽 = 0.4√3/2(3/2 + 1) 𝐵.𝑀.
𝜇𝐽 = 0.8√15/4 𝐵. 𝑀
𝜇𝐽 = 0.77 𝐵. 𝑀
𝜇𝐿+𝑆 = √4𝑆(𝑆 + 1) + 𝐿(𝐿 + 1) 𝐵.𝑀.
𝜇𝐿+𝑆 = √4 ×
3 3
+ 1) + 3(3 + 1)
2 2
𝐵.𝑀.
𝜇𝐿+𝑆 = √(4 ×
3 5
2
×
2
) + (3 × 4) 𝐵.𝑀
Calculation of S,
𝜇𝐿+𝑆 = √27 𝐵.𝑀 = 5.20 𝐵. 𝑀.
𝜇𝑆 = √𝑛(𝑛 + 2) 𝐵.𝑀.
𝜇𝑆 = √3(3 + 2) 𝐵. 𝑀.= 3.87 𝐵.𝑀.
𝜇𝑆 = 3.87 𝐵. 𝑀.
Observed eff for the Cr3+
is 3.68 – 3.86 B.M., very close to spin only magnetic moment S. Similarly, J,
L+S and S can be calculated for the other transition metal ions. The calculated and experimental
magnetic moments are given in the table 1,
4. Table 1
No of d
electrons
Ion L S Ground
State
Term
Calculated
J (B.M)
Calculated
L+S (B.M)
Calculated
S (B.M)
Observed
eff (B.M)
0 Sc3+
Ti4+
V5+
0 0 1S0 0 0 0 0
1 Ti3+
V4+
2 1/2 2D3/2 1.55 3.00 1.73 1.7 – 1.8
2 Ti2+
V3+
3 1 3F2 1.63 4.47 2.83 2.7 – 2.9
3 V2+
Cr3+
Mn4+
3 3/2 4F3/2 0.77 5.20 3.87 3.81 – 3.86
3.68 – 3.86
4.00
4 Cr2+
Mn3+
2 2 5D0 0 5.48 4.90 4.80
5.00
5 Mn2+
Fe3+
0 5/2 6S5/2 5.92 5.92 5.92 5.2 – 5.96
5.4 – 6.0
6 Fe2+
Co3+
2 2 5D4 6.70 5.48 4.90 5.0 – 5.5
2.5
7 Co2+
3 3/2 4F9/2 6.64 5.20 3.87 4.3 – 5.2
8 Ni2+
3 1 3F4 5.59 4.47 2.83 2.8 – 4.0
9 Cu2+
2 1/2 2D5/2 3.55 3.0 1.73 1.7 – 2.2
10 Cu1+
Zn2+
0 0 1S0 0 0 0 0
We observed that the magnetic moments obtained by using J equation are different from those worked
out by applying s equation. Further, the magnetic moments obtained by using L+S equation are different
from those worked out by using s equation. We also know that if L= 0 then L+S equation reduces to s
equation. Thus, magnetic moments of most of the first transition series metal ions are given by the s
equation. However, the experimental magnetic moments of Co2+
and Ni2+
are found to be very higher than
the calculated from the s equation.
3. Magnetic Properties of Coordination Complexes: Crystal Field Theory
The magnetic behavior of coordination complexes can be easily explained using crystal field theory. In
general, the ligands having very high splitting energy leads to the formation of low spin complexes, since
the gap between t2g and eg level is much higher. However, for low field ligands splitting are less and thus
they lead to the formation of high spin complexes.
Consider the complex [Fe(CN)6]4-
and [Fe(H2O)6]2+
, in both the cases (figure 6), Fe is in the (+2) oxidation
state and has octahedral geometry but the complex with CN-
as ligand forms a low spin diamagnetic
complex (where all the electrons are paired up) whereas the complex with H2O as the ligand form high
5. [Fe (CN)6]4-
[Fe(H2O)6]2+
Large Splitting Small Splitting
No unpaired Four unpaired
electrons electrons
Diamagnetic Paramagnetic
spin complex. This can be explained on the basis of different
ligand coordination taking place with the same metal ion that is
CN-
and H2O in this particular case. CN-
is a strong field ligand that leads to high amount of crystal field
splitting and thus forms low spin complexes whereas H2O is a weak field ligand which give rise to lower
splitting and thus forms high spin paramagnetic complexes. This difference is explained with the help of
following figure.
Figure 2
Hence, the ligands lying at the end of the spectrochemical series are high field strong ligands which form
low spin complexes. Examples include ethylenediamine (en), NO2-
, CN-
, CO etc. As we have already
discussed that the magnetic moment, µ, for the complexes of 3d metal ions, can be deduced from spin
only formula (Equation 4). This formula works reasonably well with the metal ion of the first transition
series. In case of the metals of second and third transition series, equation 4 is not applicable. For 4d and
5d metal ion the angular orbital moment along with the spin motion makes a large contribution. Since the
complex [Fe(CN)6]4-
is diamagnetic in nature thus, its magnetic moment is zero, but for the
complex[Fe(H2O)6]2+
it can be calculated as follows;
For, [Fe(H2O)6]2+
,n = 4
µs = [ 4(4+2) ]1/2
= 4.90 BM
Observed eff for the high spin complexes of Fe2+
is 5.10 – 5.70 B.M., very close to spin only magnetic
moment S.The calculated and experimental magnetic moments for complexes of 3d transition metal ions
are given in table 2.
Table 2
6. 2 V3+
2 2.7 – 2.9 2.83
3 Cr3+
3 3.70 – 3.90 3.87
4 Cr2+
4 4.75 – 4.90 4.90 2 3.20 – 3.30 2.8
3
5 Mn2+
Fe3+
5
5
5.65 – 6.10
5.70 – 6.00
5.92
5.92
1
1
1.80 – 2.10
2.00 – 2.50
1.73
1.73
6 Fe2+
4 5.10 – 5.70 4.90 0
7 Co2+
3 4.30 – 5.20 3.88 1 1.8 1.7
3
8 Ni2+
2 2.80 – 3.50 2.83
9 Cu2+
1 1.70 – 2.20 1.73
3.1 Spin-Orbit Coupling
As already pointed out that some of the first transition series metal complexes (e.g., low spin Fe3+
, high
spin Fe2+
, and Co2+
) give magnetic moment much higher than calculated from the s equation. So every
metal ion except for d1
, d2
, low spin d5
and high spin d6
and d7
follow spin only formula. The valance
bond theory does not offer any explanation for this higher magnetic moment, but the crystal field theory
does.
As we know that classical model of orbital magnetic moment assumes that the electrons have to go
around the nucleus so that Amperes theorem is applicable. In most of the transition metal complexes the
motion of electrons is very much restricted, so that effectively orbital magnetic moments quenched.
The unpaired electrons in a first transition series metal ion are located in the 3d orbitals. A transition
metal ion has five degenerate 3d orbitals. In order for these electrons to the orbital magnetic moment, the
electrons should go around the nucleus via these orbitals. In such a case spin-orbit coupling takes place
and contributes to the overall moment (i.e. μeff>μs). Spin-orbit coupling is the interaction of an electrons
orbital angular momentum and its spin angular momentum leading to a magnetic moment. For spin-orbit
coupling to occur, the following three conditions must be satisfied:
1. There must be a half-filled or empty orbital similar in energy to the orbital holding the unpaired
electron(s).
2. There must be a half-filled or empty orbital similar in shape and symmetry, i.e., they should be
transformable into one another by rotation about same axis.
3. The nearby symmetry related orbital must not contain an electron with the same spin as the first one
(Hund`s rule).
Electron in this orbital can make use of this nearby orbital vacancy (by moving into it) to circulate around
the centre of the complex and generate orbital momentum (μL). This leads to additional magnetic
moment. As we know that spin-orbit coupling means that S and L do not operate independently and J
states need to be defined. But spin-orbit coupling is usually small for lighter transition metals; we can
treat S and L independently (as was done inthe earlier equation for μL+S). This isn’t true for heavy metals
and their magnetism is much more complicated to predict.
4.Orbital Contribution to the Magnetic Moment in Transition Metal Ions
Orbital Contribution from eg Orbital Set
No of d
electrons
Ion High Spin Complexes LowSpin Complexes
No of
unpaired
electrons
Observed
eff (B.M)
Calculated
S (B.M)
No of
unpaired
electrons
Observed
eff (B.M)
Calculated
S (B.M)
1 Ti3+
1 1.73 1.73
7. x -y
x -y
x -y z
x -y z g
x -y x -y
For orbital angular momentum to contribute, and hence for the
paramagnetism to differ significantly from the spin-only value,
the orbital in which electron resides must be able to transform the orbital it occupies into an equivalent
and degenerate orbital by a simple rotation (it is the rotation of the electrons whichinduces the orbital
contribution). In a free ion, the five d-orbitals are degenerate and some orbitals can be transformed into
others by rotations. The figure 3 illustrates that a 90° or 45° rotation about z-axis transform dxzdyz,
dxydyz, dxydxz and dxyd 2 2
orbitals, respectively. In an octahedral complex, due to crystal field
splitting, the five d orbitals split into two sets of orbitals of different energy (t2g: dxy, dxz, dyzand eg: d 2 2
,
dz
2
). The energy barrier between these two sets restricts the orbital magnetic moment of the electrons. The
degeneracy between the dxy and d 2 2
orbitals is also removed, the transformation dxyd 2 2
is now
restricted. In an octahedral field, d 2 2
and d 2
orbitals are degenerate, but the shapes of these orbitals are
such that one is not transformable into the other by rotation. Thus, due to the condition 2 discussed in
previous section the eg orbital set in octahedral geometry (e orbital set in tetrahedral geometry) cannot
generate any orbital magnetic moment. Hence, the, d 2 2
and d 2
orbitals (e orbital set) are known as
nonmagnetic doublet. These orbitals are nonmagnetic in the sense of orbital magnetic moment; however,
spin magnetic moment is still generated by these orbitals.
Figure 3
Orbital Contribution from t2g Orbital Set
The t2g set of orbitals dxy, dxz and dyz are similar in energy, shape and symmetry. For example, the dxy and
dyz orbitals are degenerate; moreover, the dxy orbital can transformed into dyz orbital by rotating it through
90° about the z-axis. There is a further factor that needs to be taken into consideration: if all the t2g orbitals
are singly occupied, an electron in, say, dxy orbital cannot be transferred into dyz orbital because it already
contains an electron having the same spin quantum number as the incoming electron; if all thet2g orbitals
are doubly occupied the transfer is not possible. Thus only configurations which have t2g electron other
than three or six electrons make orbital contributions to the magnetic moments for octahedral complexes.
Thus, octahedral complexes with d1
and d2
configurations will have orbital magnetic moment but the
octahedral complexes with d3
configuration will The expected orbital contribution in high-spin
octahedral or tetrahedral complex with any of the d1
d10
complexes is shown in table 3
This table also lists the ground state terms corresponding to the dn
configurations. When an electron
distribution can take up only one arrangement, the corresponding ground state term is singlet (A); when
two arrangements are possible, ground state term is doublet (E) and for three arrangements, ground state
dyz dxz
dxy
dx
2 2
-y
8. term is triplet (T). In a term symbol, the left hand superscript
denotes the spin multiplicity and the right hand subscript g
indicates gerade (a tetrahedron has no inversion centre and hence the subscript g is not used for
tetrahedral complexes). Looking at the table it is clear that metal ions having A and E ground state terms
don’t show orbital contributions, however, those having T ground state terms are expected to show orbital
contributions to the effective magnetic moment. This explains why the effective magnetic moment for
tetrahedral Ni2+
, octahedral Co2+
, and octahedral Fe2+
complexes is higher than the spin–only value.
An example helps to understand the quenching of orbital moment in different metal complexes. Let us
consider Ni2+
(d8
) complex. As a free ion, the total magnetic moment μL+S is calculated to be 4.47. In
octahedral d8
complex, the orbital contribution is zero. On the contrary, d8
tetrahedral complex will have
contributions from the orbital magnetic moment. Hence, although both the complexes have two unpaired
electrons, the [Ni(H2O)6]2 +
has magnetic moment close to the spin-only value, but the magnetic moment
in [NiCl4]2-
is higher than the spin-only value.
Metal Ion High Spin OctahedralComplex High Spin Tetrahedral Complex
Configuration Groun
d State
Term
Orbital
Contribution
Configuration Groun
d State
Term
Orbital
Contributio
n
d1
(Ti3+
)
1 0
t2g eg
2T2g Yes
0
e1
t2
2
E No
d2
(Ti2+
,V3+
)
2 0
t2g eg
3T1g Yes
0
e2
t2
3A2 No
d3
(V2+
,Cr3+
)
3 0
t2g eg
4A2g No
1
e2
t2
4T1 Yes
d4
(Cr2+
,Mn3+
)
3 1
t2g eg
5Eg No
2
e2
t2
5T2 Yes
d5
(Mn2+
,Fe3+
)
3 2
t2g eg
6A1g No
3
e2
t2
6A1 No
d6
(Fe2+
,Co3+
)
4 2
t2g eg
5T2g Yes
3
e3
t2
5
E No
d7
(Co2+
)
5 2
t2g eg 4T1g Yes
3
e4
t2
4A2 No
d8
(Ni2+
)
6 2
t2g eg 3A2g No
4
e4
t2
3T1 Yes
d9
(Cu2+
)
6 3
t2g eg 2Eg No
5
e4
t2
2T2 Yes
d10
(Cu+
,Zn2+
)
6 4
t2g eg
1A1g No
6
e4
t2
1A1 No
Table 3
9. 2 2
2g g
Ni2+ (Free Ion)
S=1, L=3
μL+S= 4.47
[Ni(H2O)6]2+
Octahedral
dz
2 dx
2 2
- Y
dxy dyz dxz
Orbital contribution Zero.
Magnetic moment close to
the spin-only value
[Ni(Cl)4]2-
Tetrahedral
dxy dyz dxz
dz
2 dx
2
Y
2
-
Magnetic moment is higher
than the spin-only value as
there is some orbital
contribution.
Figure 4
Orbital Contribution from Excited States
From above discussion the octahedral Ni2+
or tetrahedral Co2+
are expected to have no orbital magnetic
moment, but only spin magnetic moment. However, such a complex in reality exhibits a magnetic
moment significantly higher than μS. This is because the excited states of octahedral Ni2+
(t 5
e 3
, 3
T2g)
and tetrahedral Co2+
(e3
t 4
,4
T ) carry the orbital magnetic moment. In a system having such an excited
state, the spin-orbit coupling brings about some mixing of the ground state with the excited state, thus
forcing some orbital contribution. The quantitative relation between μeff and μS is
𝜇𝑒𝑓𝑓 = 𝜇𝑠 [1 −
𝛼
∆
] +
2𝛼𝑁𝛽2
∆
…… …… …… (5)
Where is a constant which depends upon the ground state and the number of d electrons. The value of
is 2 for Eg ground state term and 4 for an A2g . is the separation between ground and the excited state
and can be obtained from the electronic spectra. is the spin-orbit coupling constant and it is positive for
d1
, d2
, d3
and d4
ions and negative for d6
, d7
, d8
and d9
ions. The first term 𝛼𝛽2⁄∆ arises from the mixing in
of an excited state via spin-orbit coupling and the second term 2𝛼𝑁𝛽2⁄∆ is the temperature independent
paramagnetism which is field induced. Now it is clear from the above relation that the greater the 10Dq
value, the smaller the mixing effect, therefore, the lesser orbital contribution. i.e., a strong donor ligand is
likely to reduce the orbital contribution. Further, depending upon the sign of , μeff will be higher or lower
than μS. For example, the sign of is negative for Ni2+
(d8
) and positive for Cr3
(d3
).
10. 4 4
The high spin octahedral complex of Mn2+
(d5
), [Mn(H2O)6]2+
with the ground state 6
A1g, has no excited state of same spin
multiplicity as that of the ground state. Therefore, mixing of the ground state with any of the excited
states due to spin-orbit coupling is not possible. Thus, there is no orbital contribution to μeff due to spin-
orbit coupling. Therefore, μeff is same as μS. In high spin octahedral complexes of Co2+
(d7
), the ground
state is 4
T1g and a large orbital contribution to the magnetic moment is expected. Mixing of excited state
lowers the moment somewhat, but a value of μeff (4.30 –5.20) is still larger than the μS (3.88) in excess of
5 B.M. is usually found. The ground state for the tetrahedral complexes of Co2+
(d7
), is 4
A2 and a low
magnetic moment approaching to spin only value might be expected. However, an excited magnetic state
is comparatively low in energy in the tetrahedral complexes and can be mixed with the ground state. So
the magnetic moments in the range from 4 to5 B.M. have been predicted and are found experimentally.
An inverse relationship exists for tetrahedral complexes between the magnitude of the moment of the
complex and the value of as predicted by equation (5).
In general, using three conditions discussed in the previous section, it is also possible to make out whether
a low spin octahedral configuration will have orbital contribution or not. For example, in a low spin
complex of Mn2+
(d5
), the ground state is 2
T2g and therefore fulfills all the three conditions. So the
complex will have orbital contribution. The ground state for low spin complex of Fe2+
(d6
) ion is A1g but
all the electrons are paired and hence the complex is diamagnetic. Moreover, the ground state for low spin
complex of Co2+
(d6
) ion is 2
Eg and hence it has no orbital contribution.
For the 4d and 5d ions, diamagnetism results for even numbered electrons, and paramagnetism to the
extent of one unpaired electron only is observed for the odd numbered electrons, indicating that spin
pairing takes place for these ions as far as possible. This may be due to (i) reduced interelectronic
repulsions in large sized ions reducing the electron pairing energies, (ii) higher ligand field splitting. The
µ at room temperature is generally lower than µs and cannot be used to determine the unpaired electrons
due to (iii) high spin-orbit coupling constants which align L and S vectors in opposite directions
destroying the paramagnetism.
Further, (iv) the Curie or Curie-Weiss law does not hold, the variation of µ with L is complex and
depends upon the number of the electrons present.
Some ions like MnO -
, CrO 2-
and low spin Co3+
complexes show temperature-independent
paramagnetism (TIP) even though they do not have any unpaired electron. This is due to the spin-orbit
coupling of the ground state to a paramagnetic excited state under the influence of the magnetic field. The
degree of mixing is independent of temperature, but depends on the applied magnetic field, as the excited
state is well separated from the ground state, whose population does not change with temperature.
5.Quenching of Orbital Magnetic Moment due to Loss of Orbital Degeneracy
The loss of degeneracy of the d orbitals affects the unrestricted motion of electrons about the nucleus. The
degeneracy of d orbitals is lost (Figure 5) to a greater extent in case of tetragonally distorted octahedral
complex, trigonal bipyramidal complex and square pyramidal complex. In such a complex, the magnetic
moment μeff is close to μS.
11. d 2 2 d
Trigonal
bipyramidal
Complex
Free Ion d-
Orbitals
Octahedral
Ligand Field
Square
pyramidal
Complex
Square planer
Complex
2 2
x - Y x - Y
Figure 4
eg
t2g
dz
2
dxy
dxz , dyz
dxy
dz
2
dxz , dyz
7. Summary
In this module, we discussed that,
The magnetic moment of the most of transition metal ions are very close to spin only magnetic
moment S means completely neglecting the orbital motions.
The magnetic behavior of the coordination complexes can be easily explained based on the
crystal field theory. Strong field ligands having very high splitting energy lead to the formation of
the low spin complexes, however, weak field ligands having low splitting energy lead to the
formation of the high spin complexes.
In some transition metal ions spin-orbit coupling takes place and contributes to the overall
moment. For spin-orbit coupling to occur, following three conditions must be satisfied:
(1.) There must be a half-filled or empty orbital similar in energy, (2.) There must be a half-filled
or empty orbital similar in shape and symmetry, (3.) The nearby symmetry related orbital must
not contain an electron with the same spin as the first electron.
The loss of degeneracy of the d orbitals affects the unrestricted motion of electrons about the nucleus.
The degeneracy of the d orbitals is lost to a greater extent. In such a complex, the magnetic moment
μeff is close to μS.