Chelate Ligands Flashcards

1
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What’s the chelate bite?

A

Distance between ligands and donor atom and restricts mode of co-ordination to metal centre

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Are chelate ligands usually cis or trans?

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Cis unless the backbone between donor atoms is very long

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