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silimay
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We have been doing a lot of d-splitting diagrams in my inorganic chemistry class.
I was wondering... I am always confused how to tell whether an orbital is a sigma orbital or a pi orbital. For instance for trigonal bipyramidal, how do you know that the two lowest are pi, the next two are pi, and the top one is sigma?
And what exactly do the stars mean?
I was wondering... I am always confused how to tell whether an orbital is a sigma orbital or a pi orbital. For instance for trigonal bipyramidal, how do you know that the two lowest are pi, the next two are pi, and the top one is sigma?
And what exactly do the stars mean?