Reactivity in Chemistry

Ligand Binding

 in Coordination Complexes and Organometallic Compounds

with problems contributed by Kate Graham and Brian Johnson

CC1. Introduction to Metal-Ligand Binding

CC2.  How Tightly Do Ligands Bind?

CC3.  Electron Counting in Transition Metal Complexes

CC4.   Chelation and Denticity

CC5.   Pi Coordination: Donation from Alkenes

CC6.  Hapticity

CC7.  Hard-Soft Acid & Base Concepts

CC8.  Ligand Field Theory

CC9.  Ligand Field Stabilisation Energy

CC10.  Spectrochemical Series

CC11.  Ligand Field and Lability

CC12.  Jahn-Teller Distortion

CC13.  Multiple Bonds in Coordination Compounds

CC14.  Solutions to Selected Problems, CC1-CC6.

CC15.  Solution to Selected Problems, CC7-CC13.

 

 

 

This site was written by Chris P. Schaller, Ph.D., College of Saint Benedict / Saint John's University (retired) with other authors as noted on individual pages.  It is freely available for educational use.

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