KnowraCrystal field theoryLinked fromLinked fromThe 31 pages that link to Crystal field theory, each with the reason it gives.All 31Related 26Compared with 5Molecular orbital theoryCompared with: It omits covalent orbital mixing that molecular orbital descriptions can include.Valence bond theoryCompared with: It offers a different account of coordination-compound properties than orbital-overlap bonding models.LigandCompared with: It offers a simpler, largely electrostatic account of the orbital splitting caused by ligands.Ligand field theoryCompared with: It captures electrostatic splitting but omits the covalent metal–ligand interactions included in ligand field theory.Hund's rule of maximum multiplicityCompared with: Orbital splitting can compete with pairing and change whether electrons remain unpaired.