Question

What is the advantage of the orbital diagram?

Answer 1

There are numerous advantages of an orbital diagram:

1. Using orbital diagrams, hybridization of compounds can be evaluated. You can predict the excitation of electrons from inner shells to outer shells. This helps in finding hybridization of a compound.

2. Using orbital diagrams, magnetic nature of the compounds can be evaluated. If the number of electrons is odd in outermost orbital, then it is paramagnetic and if the number of electrons is even, then it is diamagnetic.

3. Orbital diagrams also help in molecular orbital theory to find bond orders.

4. Orbital diagrams simplify using various rules like Aufbau principle and Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity.

5. Orbital diagrams also help in crystal field theory to find out hybridization of chemical compounds.

6. Orbital diagrams show exactly how many paired as well as unpaired electrons are there.