True or false: the theories and their limits

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

Statement is true
Yes
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VBT explains geometrical shapes with reasonable success.
Statement is true
No
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VBT gives a quantitative account of magnetic behaviour.
Statement is true
Yes
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CFT treats ligands as point charges.
Statement is true
Yes
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The point charge assumption creates theoretical difficulties.
Statement is true
Yes
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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.