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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