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That's pretty much it. Why do they have 0 Oxidation state?
Oxidation number is like a hypothetical value for the charge of the individual species if a compound was considered ionic(atleast that's what i understood).Why not?
Carbonyls aren't ionic.if a compound was considered ionic
Why 'never'? They don't in carbonyls, they do in other compounds.So when we say the OS of metals in metal carbonyls is 0, are we saying that they can never donate any electrons?