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Bonding between a metal center and ligands through electrostatic, covalent donation, back-bonding, and orbital-overlap contributions.
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Metal–ligand interactions determine geometry, electronic states, spectra, lability, and reactivity.
The source field, particle, charge, current, or interaction couples to, acts on, binds, forms, or stabilizes the target in the stated regime. The edge label and detail must identify the exact coupling, interaction, or binding claim and its qualifications.
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Molecular-orbital theory models metal–ligand bonding through symmetry-adapted donor and acceptor interactions; the chosen orbital partition is model dependent and correlation may require extensions.
The target is a model, idealization, restricted ansatz, approximation scheme, phenomenological fit, or historical representation used for the source system or theory. It need not have a universal small error parameter and is not thereby a controlled limit or effective theory. The edge label and detail must identify the precise status.
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