Why low spin tetrahedral are rarely observed? Explain your answer if it is like this one (Due to low CFSC which is not able to pair up electron ) Share with your friends Share 0 Vartika Jain answered this Dear Student, In tetrahedral complexes, the crystal field splitting is intrinsically smaller than that in octahdral compounds because there are only two thirds as many ligands and they have less direct effect on d-orbitals. As a result splitting energies in tetrahedrak complexes generally are not large enough to force electrons to pair, and low spin configurations are rarely observed. 0 View Full Answer
