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Ethylene Diamine is a____.


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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.


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