Inorganic; You are attempting to synthesize some magnetic material using either Vanandium, Manganese or Cobalt and have...

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Inorganic;

You are attempting to synthesize some magnetic material usingeither Vanandium, Manganese or Cobalt and have available theligands pyridine, I-, CO, and OH-. What complexes(oxidation states, geometeries, etc.) might you expect to make goodmagnetic materials?

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vanadium has the electronic configuration Ar 3d34s2 V is Ar 4s2 3d3 V2 is Ar 4s0 3d3 V3 is Ar 4s0 3d2 V4 is Ar 4s0 3d1 V5 is Ar 4s0 3d0 And thus V3 is paramagnetic because it has two unpaired 3d electrons In fact all the ions above are paramagnetic except V5 In case of Manganese the electronic configuration is    See Answer
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