The equivalents of ethylene diamine required to replace the neutral ligands from the coordination sphere of…

The equivalents of ethylene diamine required to replace the neutral ligands from the coordination sphere of the trans-complex of CoCl3.4NH3 is _______ . (Round off to the Nearest Integer).

Solution

1. trans- CoCl3.4NH3
or

transCoNH34Cl2C

As we know that ethylene diamine is a bidentate ligand and ammonia is a mono dentate ligand.

It means overall two ethylene diamine is required to replace the all neutral ligands (four ammonia) from the coordination sphere of this complex.

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