Many compounds of the transition-metal elements contain direct bonds between metal atoms. We will assume that the z-axis is defined as the metal–metal bond axis. (d) Sketch the energylevel diagram for the Sc2 molecule, assuming that only the 3d orbital from part (a) is important.

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Hello everyone. So in this video we're going to go ahead and write the molecular orbital energy diagram for T. I. To I'm assuming that this orbital is important. So let's first go ahead and write the valence electron configuration for our element. So the surveillance electron configuration of our specify a little bit of our element. That's going to be during the shorthand version. So our gun will be our noble guests. And then continuing the electron configuration, we have four S two and three D. Two. So because we have two atoms here, the total Valence electron is going to be eight. So these two are advanced electrons. We have a total of them. Alright, so now drawing out the molecular orbital energy diagram, of course going up is our energy simplify that to E. Then we have at the bottom are sigma for us. Over to the left, we have our for us to the right, we have again for us and then on top of the sigma star for us and then right on top we'll have our sigma three D To the left and the right will have three d. c. And finally on top over Sigma Star three D. And again because we have eight electrons that we need to go ahead and write it in here. We're gonna go from bottom to the top because of Hansbrough. So let's go ahead and do that. And of course let's not forget this as well. This is the proper diagram format. All right. So then the question again is asking us to write the molecular orbital energy diagram and we're able to do this right over here. So all this is going to be the answer for this question. Thank you all so much for watching.