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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Spin states?

Also known as: pairing energy · high spin · low spin

Definition 19.3 University Chemistry — Year 2 · Chapter 19 — Ligand Field Theory and Colour

The pairing energy PP is the energy needed to put a second electron into an occupied orbital rather than into an empty one of the same energy. A complex is high spin when its electrons occupy the ege_g orbitals before pairing in t2gt_{2g}, low spin when they pair in t2gt_{2g} first.

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