Answer to Question #196694 in Inorganic Chemistry for asu kaya

Question

Expain Crystal Field Theory briefly. 

Answer 1

Crystal field theory (CFT) describes the breaking of degeneracies of electron orbital states, usually d or f orbitals, due to a static electric field produced by a surrounding charge distribution (anion neighbours).CFT was developed by physicists Hans Bethe and John Hasbrouck van Vleck in the 1930s.