Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]

Limitation of CFT

Download as docx, pdf, or txt
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 2

Limitation of CFT

1. The CFT can not explain thee color of substances with a full or empty d orbital.(since it only
consider d orbitals) an example of these substances is KMnO4 in which the d orbital is empty.
2. There is another kind of electron transfer called Charge Transfer(CT) which is more
powerful than
dd
transfer and is between metal and ligand. this type of electron transfer is not covered in
crystal
field theory and can only be explained using MOT(molecular orbital theory)
3. It treats metal ligand as purely ionic. Hence it cannot be used for sulfides as sulfides forms
mostly
covalent bond.
4. . It cannot satisfactorily explain chemical bonding. Complexes may also be formed between
neutral
metal atoms and neutral or cationic ligands. Crystal Field Theory is poorly suited to explain
such
interactions.
5. Crystal Field Theory fails in explaining why a neutral ligand such as CO can cause a very
large
crystal field splitting. Molecular Orbital Theory explains why the CO ligand leads to a higher
crystal field splitting.
6. It assumes that anionic ligands are present at low end of the spectrochemical series.

Limitations of Valence Bond Theory :


While the VB theory, to a larger extent, explains the formation, structures and magnetic
behaviour of coordination compounds, it suffers from the following shortcomings:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)

It involves a number of assumptions.


It does not give quantitative interpretation of magnetic data.
It does not explain the colour exhibited by coordination compounds.
It does not give a quantitative interpretation of the thermodynamic or kinetic
stabilities of coordination compounds.
It does not make exact predictions regarding the tetrahedral and square
planar structures of 4-coordinate complexes.
It does not distinguish between weak and strong ligands.

HgS, Bi2S3, PbS, CdS and CuS can be separated by differential solubility. HgS is insoluble
in nitric acid while the rest of the group II cations are soluble
Adding the nitric acid will cause the white AgCl to precipitate out

You might also like