EDTA 4 - is ethylenediaminetetraacetate ion. The total number of N - Co - O bond angles in Co EDTA 1 -…
Solution
is a hexadentate ligand containing four negative charges on its corner oxygen atoms as follows :

Being a hexadentate ligand, it forms a ring like structure through chelation.

The central metal ion is in the centre, coordinated to the two atoms and the four ions through chelation. Now, if we observe, we see that each atom forms four bonds with the four ions. Therefore, two atoms will form bonds in the complex structure of . Each bond will have a certain bond angle. Hence, it can be concluded that the total number of bond angles in the complex ion is .
Asked in: JEE Advanced 2013 (Paper 1)