2. Transition metals bonded to six ligands usually adopt an octahedral geometry.

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2. Transition metals bonded to six ligands usually adopt an octahedral geometry.  However, there are examples of six-coordinate metal complexes with a  prism-like structure. These  complexes have three ligands located above the metal in a trigonal arrangement,  and three ligands located below the metal in a trigonal arrangement. The upper and lower triangles are  located directly above each other as illustrated below. This molecular shape belongs to the  point group D3h.

Transition metals bonded to six ligands usually adopt an octahedral geometry. However, there are examples of six-coordinate metal complexes with a prism-like structure. These complexes have three ligands located above the metal in a trigonal arrangement, and three ligands located below the metal in a trigonal arrangement. The upper and lower triangles are located directly above each other as illustrated below. This molecular shape belongs to the point group D3h.

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