In an octahedral complex, this degeneracy is lifted.

Consider, for instance, a regularly octahedral complex like.

Viewed as an octahedral complex, the hydride ligands are cis.

Although of little consequence for its applications, these octahedral complexes are chiral.

The Jahn-Teller effect is most often encountered in octahedral complexes of the transition metals.

Nevertheless, octahedral complexes comparable to those of the transition elements are not rare.

The isolobal analogy has applications beyond simple octahedral complexes.

The seven Tanabe-Sugano diagrams for octahedral complexes are shown below.

Commonly octahedral complexes in both high spin and low spin.

The isolobal fragments of octahedral complexes, such as ML, can be created in a similar way.