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Coordination Chemistry

WhyDotKom - 16-9-2013 at 05:10

anyone here has book about coordiation chemistry?
can you suggest to me please :)

DJF90 - 16-9-2013 at 09:31

Yes, I have one that is very good. I don't have it on my person atm as I lent it to a friend who's still at university. I will enquire about the title/author...

AndersHoveland - 16-9-2013 at 10:01

I will give you this helpful tip - many bare metal ions often behave as mild lewis acids outside of a crystal lattice. A coordination compound is comparable to an adduct between a lewis acid and lewis base. The metal ion donates some of its positive charge to the surrounding coordination centers. One way to view this is to draw a resonance state diagram. When an H2O or NH3 molecule has a positive charge on it, it can bond to something else. A coordination bond is weaker because the H2O only has a partial positive charge. Chloride anions can also act as ligands in many cases. Coordination complexes are really fundamentally no different than any other polyatomic ion in resonance.