alleryChelate or ambidentate?
Exercise and reference answers
- Items
- Item
- Uses two donor atoms at the same time
- Category
- Chelate
- Item
- Forms unusually stable complexes
- Category
- Chelate
- Item
- EDTA⁴⁻ binding a metal ion
- Category
- Chelate
- Item
- Has two different donor atoms, uses one
- Category
- Ambidentate
- Item
- NO₂⁻
- Category
- Ambidentate
- Item
- SCN⁻
- Category
- Ambidentate
- Categories
- Item
- Chelate
- Item
- Ambidentate
Explanation
Both involve more than one candidate donor atom, but a chelate uses them together while an ambidentate ligand picks one. Source: syllabus Chemistry Part I, Ch 5 Coordination Compounds.
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