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

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

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Ligands can be described as an anions or cations or neutral molecules which is further classified as monodentate, bidentate, tridentate, polydentate etc.

Bidentate ligands have two donar atoms while polydentate ligands have more than two donar atoms by which they attached to the metal.

 

 

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