Valence Bond Theory

Coordination compounds and complexes exhibit different colors, geometries, and magnetic behavior, depending on the metal atom/ion and ligands from which they are composed. In an attempt to explain the bonding and structure of coordination complexes, Linus Pauling proposed the valence bond theory, or VBT, using the concepts of hybridization and t...

Coordination complexes exhibit different geometries like octahedral, tetrahedral, and square planar, depending on the metal orbitals participating in the coordinate covalent bonds.

Valence bond theory, or VBT, explains this based on the metal’s hybridization of s, p, and d orbitals. Hybridization provides vacant...