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do ligands donate lone pairs or form chemical bonds with central atom?

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Q. Assertion :EDTA is a hexadentate ligand. Reason: Denticity of a ligand is given by number of lone pairs donated to central atom by a ligand.

STATEMENT-1 : EDTA is hexadentate ligand.
STATEMENT-2 : Denticity of a ligand is given by number of lone pairs donated to central atom by a ligand.

Q. Substances which can donate lone pairs of electrons to form coordinate covalent bonds are called:

π

acid ligands donate their lone pairs to the metal to form a normal

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bond with the latter in addition to it, the vacant orbitals accept

e^{-}

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bond which supplements the

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