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Bonding between metal and ligand
Question

Which is not true about metal carbonyls?

Moderate
Solution

CO is called π-acid ligand. In metal carbonyl complexes, there is donation of an electron pair from carbon to the empty orbital of metal and then simultaneously a back π-bonding is formed by sideways overlap of a filled orbital on the metal with empty antibonding π2py orbital of CO.

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