Inorganic Chemistry (i) Define spectrochemical series (ii) Explain the difference between weak-field and strong-field ligands

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Q: Why are multidentate ligands preferable to unidentate ligands for complexometric titrations?

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Q: Dimethylglyoxime is unidentate or bidentate ligand ?

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Q: i. A brief explanation of how the nature of the ligand (strong-field or weak-field) will affect the…

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Q: <p>Explain the differences between weak-field and strong-fieldmetal complexes.

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Q: A spectrochemical series is a series of chemical units that contribute to ligand field splitting…

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Q: Give an example of ambidentate ligand.

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Q: "Ligand field theory provides a basis for explaining the chemical behaviour of octahedral transition…

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Q: Explain why the tetrahedral complexes A and B have magnetic moments of 1.89 and 0.0 BM respectively

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Q: 1. Draw the partial MO diagram for a [Fe(OH;)6J** using concepts from Ligand Field Theory. Fill in…

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Q: What do you understand by ‘denticity of a ligand’?

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Q: Why can the NH3 molecule serve as a ligand but the BH3 molecule cannot?

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Q: Why is pyridine referred to as a monodentate ligand?

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Q: What electronic feature must a donor atom of a ligand have?

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Q: Write the examples of Bidentate and Polydentate ligands? Also distinguish them.

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Coordination Chemistry

It is a part of chemistry, in which the study of compounds that have central atoms surrounded by molecules or ions, known as ligand, is known as coordination chemistry.