19.2 Coordination Chemistry of Transition Metals
Metal centers bound by monodentate and polydentate ligands, naming rules for the resulting complexes, and their geometric and optical isomers.
Chemistry 2e, 19.2 Coordination Chemistry of Transition Metals
3 exercises
19.2 Exercise 2
Give the coordination numbers and write the formulas for each of the following, including all isomers where appropriate:
(a) tetrahydroxozincate(II) ion (tetrahedral)
(b) hexacyanopalladate(IV) ion
(c) dichloroaurate(I) ion (note that aurum is Latin for "gold")
(d) diamminedichloroplatinum(II)
(e) potassium diamminetetrachlorochromate(III)
(f) hexaamminecobalt(III) hexacyanochromate(III)
(g) dibromob…
19.2 Exercise 6
Name each of the compounds or ions given in the exercise, including the oxidation state of the metal.
19.2 Exercise 8
Specify whether the following complexes have isomers.
(a) tetrahedral [Ni(CO)2(Cl)2]
(b) trigonal bipyramidal [Mn(CO)4NO]
(c) [Pt(en)2Cl2]Cl2
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