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This property is conferred via cooling and light irradiation during LIESST. Exciting a triplet state produces “light-harvesting” molecules with this property such as Ru(bpy)3 (“ru-bippy”), inducing an MLCT transition in one instance of intersystem crossing. Unlike Orgel diagrams, spectra of complexes with this property can be predicted using the right half of a Tanabe-Sugano diagram. This property is characterized by a large energy split between (*) t-sub-2g and e-sub-g orbitals, caused by ligands high in the spectrochemical series known as “strong field.” Octahedral complexes with less pairing energy than splitting energy have this property, and do not maximize multiplicity according to Hund’s rule. For 10 points, name this property exhibited in complexes with a minimal number of unpaired electrons, which reduces intrinsic angular momentum. ■END■
ANSWER: low spin [accept strong field or strong ligand field until “strong” is read; prompt on diamagnetic or diamagnetism with “those diamagnetic complexes exhibit what configuration?”; prompt on octahedral until read by asking “what configuration do those octahedral complexes have?”]
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