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Discuss the nature of bonding in metal carbonyls.

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The bonding in metal carbonyls can be discussed as follows :
i) Carbon of CO donates its lone pairs of electrons to the empty orbitals of metal atom and forms a sigma `M larr C` bond.
ii) The filled d - orbitals of metal donate their electrons to vacant antibonding 7t molecualar orbitals of CO. This results in the formation of `M to Cpi` bond. TH ebonding can be shown as :

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