Question

Tetrahedral fields can easily form low spin complexes.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was posed to me during an interview.

My doubt stems from Bonding in Coordination Compounds topic in division Coordination Compounds of Chemistry – Class 12

Answer 1

Right choice is (b) False

Easy explanation: The splitting energy in tetrahedral fields is almost half of that of octahedral fields. Due to this, the orbital splitting energies are not very large, which makes it difficult for electron pairing and therefore low spin complexes are rarely formed.