On the Absorption Spectra of Complex Ions, III The Calculation of the Crystalline Field Strength
Abstract
A molecular calculation of the crystalline field parameter Dq in chrome alum has been carried out on the basis of the generalized crystalline field model suggested in the previous papers I and II (Journ. Phys. Soc. Japan. 9 (1954) 753, 766). The deformation of the electron cloud of Cr3+ is taken into consideration by making the 3d orbital of Cr3+ orthogonal to ligand orbitals. The result shows that Kleiner’s value of Dq with a wrong sign is corrected. This improvement is due to the large resonance energy between the 3d orbitals of the central ion and the ligand orbitals, which appears only in the molecular treatment. However, the model Cr3+-6H2O cannot explain the observed change in the values of the spin orbit coupling constant λ and the B-value. A possible way to get over this difficulty is considered.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- August 1956
- DOI:
- 10.1143/JPSJ.11.864
- Bibcode:
- 1956JPSJ...11..864T