True or false: the theories and their limits
Read exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- VBT explains geometrical shapes with reasonable success.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- VBT gives a quantitative account of magnetic behaviour.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- CFT treats ligands as point charges.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- The point charge assumption creates theoretical difficulties.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- CFT can estimate magnetic moments quantitatively.
Each theory is judged on what it does and does not deliver. Source: syllabus Chemistry Part I, Ch 5 Coordination Compounds.