{"id":130496,"date":"2023-02-13T12:39:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T07:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=130496"},"modified":"2023-02-13T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T07:09:48","slug":"kmno4-is-coloured-due-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/kmno4-is-coloured-due-to","title":{"rendered":". KMnO4 is coloured due to:"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>These are the options for the question :. KMnO4 is coloured due to:<\/h2>\n<h3>a. d-d transitions<br \/>\nb. charge transfer from ligand to metal<br \/>\nc. unpaired electrons in d orbital of Mn<br \/>\nd. charge transfer from metal to ligand<\/h3>\n<h4>The correct answer is -b. charge transfer from ligand to metal<br \/>\nThe Mn atom in KMnO4 has +7 oxidation state with electron configuration<br \/>\n[Ar]3d 04s0 Since no unpaired electrons are present, d\u2212d transitions are not<br \/>\npossible. The molecule should, therefore, be colourless.<br \/>\nIts intense purple due to L\u2192M (ligand to metal) charge transfer 2p(L) of O to<br \/>\n3d(M) of Mn.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the options for the question :. KMnO4 is coloured due to: a. d-d transitions b. charge transfer from ligand to metal c. unpaired electrons in d orbital of Mn d. charge transfer from metal to ligand The correct answer is -b. charge transfer from ligand to metal The Mn atom in KMnO4 has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":130487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130501,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130496\/revisions\/130501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}