“…These have a long and distinguished history of applications in electron, optical and magnetooptical spectroscopy, magnetism and magnetic resonance. The author and his colleagues has successfully demonstrated the great potential of the cluster model for description of the p-d and d-d charge transfer transitions and their contributions to optical and magnetooptical responses of various 3d oxides, such as ferrites [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40], cuprates [41][42][43][44][45], manganites [40,46,47] and nickelates [48,49]. Five Me 3d and eighteen oxygen O 2p atomic orbitals in the octahedral MeO 6 complex with the point symmetry group O h form hybrid Me 3d-O 2p bonding and antibonding e g and t 2g molecular orbitals, and purely oxygen nonbonding a 1g (σ), t 1g (π), t 1u (σ), t 1u (π) and t 2u (π) orbitals (see, e.g., [5,8,29,46]).…”