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b) How is a metal-carbon `pi` bond formed in metal carbonyls? 

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`M-C pi` bond is formed by the donation of a pair of electrons from a filled d-orbital of metal into the vacnat antibonding `pi` orbital of carbon monoxide. This is called back bonding.
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