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BECAUSE of the instability of the valence states which transition metal atoms must possess in order to have four non-bonding electrons remaining after forming a d2sp3 octahedral complex ion, few simple ions of this configuration have been studied. This lack of experimental data has seriously hindered the elucidation of the properties to be expected for a complex ion of this type1.
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TURNER, A., CLIFFORD, A. Electronic Configuration d4 in a Complex Ion. Nature 182, 1369 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821369a0
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