Consider a metal atom surrounded by the cube- shaped arrangement of eight ligand atoms (Oh symmetry).
1. Derive the reducible representation for the 8 sigma-bonds.
2. Systematically (step-by-step) reduce this representation to its collection.
3. which (s, p, or d) metal orbitals have the same symmetry as theses irreducible representations?
4. Why do we not observe this coordination arrangement?