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This contrasts to hard ligands, which are o donors, and often n donors, too.
• In the CO molecule both the C and
the O atoms are sp hybridized.
This leaves the C py orbital empty, and the O py orbital doubly occupied,
and so the second n bond is formed only after we have formed a dative
bond by transfer of the lone pair of O py electrons into the empty C py
orbital.
[FeF6]
[Fe(CN)6]