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Inorganic Chemistry — Practice Set 5

The chemistry of coordination compounds: Werner's theory and the coordination sphere, ligands, denticity and the chelate effect, nomenclature, coordination numbers and geometries, structural and stereoisomerism including optical isomers, crystal field theory in octahedral, tetrahedral and square-planar fields, Δ and CFSE, high- versus low-spin complexes and the spectrochemical series, colour and d–d transitions, the Jahn–Teller effect, magnetic moments, stability constants, bio-coordination chemistry and organometallics. Formulae of complex ions are shown in full notation.