Hi folks,
I'm currently racking my brain trying to figure out a question that just doesn't really seem possible to me...
"Consider a metal atom surrounded by a cube-shaped arrangement of eight ligand atoms (Oh symmetry) and derive the reducible representation for the 8 sigma bonds."
Now I've looked up and down and I can't think of a way to get the reducible form of this compound without the irreducible parts to it, regardless I basically just poked around until one worked but I'm basically just short of certain that it isn't right...
Oh|E 8C3 6C2 6C4 3C42 i 6S4 8S6 3σh 6σd (where h = 48)
Γ | 8 2 0 0 0 8 0 2 0 0
This works but I'm borderline certain that it isn't right, I've asked freaking everyone about this and they don't seem to know, does anyone have ANY idea what I can do to make a correct reducible compound?