Q46 · CSIR-NET Chemistry, June 2013

Paper: CSIR-NET June 2013 · Subject: Inorganic Chemistry · Chapter: Inorganic Spectroscopy · Topic: Inorganic Spectroscopy – General · Marks: 2 · Difficulty: Medium

For a tetragonally distorted Cr(III) complex, zero-field splitting results in the following number of Kramers doublets:

(a)1

(b)2

(c)3

(d)4

Answer

Answer: B ✓ checked by 4AB · confidence high

Explanation

S = 3/2 splits under zero-field splitting into two Kramers doublets, m_s = ±1/2 and ±3/2.

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