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As I was going through Concise Inorganic Chemistry by J. D. Lee, I realised that there are simply no low spin tetrahedral complexes mentioned in the book. Is there any specific condition required for the formation of such a complex? Usually low-spin complexes are in $dsp^2$$\mathrm{dsp^2}$ electronic configuration. But can this kind of orbital form a tetrahedral geometry? Because usually tetrahedron is usually synonymous to $sp^3$.

note: I am still in high school. So please correct me if I've asked wrongly$\mathrm{sp^3}$.

As I was going through Concise Inorganic Chemistry by J. D. Lee, I realised that there are simply no low spin tetrahedral complexes mentioned in the book. Is there any specific condition required for the formation of such a complex? Usually low-spin complexes are in $dsp^2$ electronic configuration. But can this kind of orbital form a tetrahedral geometry? Because usually tetrahedron is usually synonymous to $sp^3$.

note: I am still in high school. So please correct me if I've asked wrongly.

As I was going through Concise Inorganic Chemistry by J. D. Lee, I realised that there are simply no low spin tetrahedral complexes mentioned in the book. Is there any specific condition required for the formation of such a complex? Usually low-spin complexes are in $\mathrm{dsp^2}$ electronic configuration. But can this kind of orbital form a tetrahedral geometry? Because usually tetrahedron is usually synonymous to $\mathrm{sp^3}$.

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Why are low spin tetrahedral complexes so rare?

As I was going through Concise Inorganic Chemistry by J. D. Lee, I realised that there are simply no low spin tetrahedral complexes mentioned in the book. Is there any specific condition required for the formation of such a complex? Usually low-spin complexes are in $dsp^2$ electronic configuration. But can this kind of orbital form a tetrahedral geometry? Because usually tetrahedron is usually synonymous to $sp^3$.

note: I am still in high school. So please correct me if I've asked wrongly.