Question

Ethylene Diamine is a____.

Answer 1

Ligand

• Ligand Is an ion or molecule, which donates a pair of electrons to the central metal atom or ion to form a coordination complex.
• Ligands can be anions, cations and neutral molecules.
• Ligands act as a Lewis base and central metal atoms are viewed as Lewis acid.
• Ligands can be classified as monodentate, bidentate, tridentate and polydentate ligands depending upon the number of ligand donor atoms that attach to the metal atom or ion.
• Ethylene Diamine is a bidentate ligand.

Hence, ethylenediamine is a ligand.