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Chm361-Exercise 5

This document provides a series of exercises related to coordination compounds and complex ions. It asks the reader to: 1. Name various complex ions and coordination compounds. 2. Write formulas for coordination entities given their names. 3. Identify types of isomerism and draw structures for certain complexes that exhibit isomerism. 4. Draw orbital splitting diagrams to explain the relative energies of d-orbitals in an octahedral complex and for several complexes based on the spectrochemical series. 5. Rank complexes by the energy of visible light absorbed based on the ligand field splitting parameter Δ.

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Chm361-Exercise 5

This document provides a series of exercises related to coordination compounds and complex ions. It asks the reader to: 1. Name various complex ions and coordination compounds. 2. Write formulas for coordination entities given their names. 3. Identify types of isomerism and draw structures for certain complexes that exhibit isomerism. 4. Draw orbital splitting diagrams to explain the relative energies of d-orbitals in an octahedral complex and for several complexes based on the spectrochemical series. 5. Rank complexes by the energy of visible light absorbed based on the ligand field splitting parameter Δ.

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CHM361/E6/FFR

EXERCISE 6

CHAPTER 6

1. Name the following complex ions / coordination compounds

a. [Ni(NH3)6]2+ i. [Pt(en)2]2+
b. [AlF6]3- j. [Co(NH3)4(NO2)Cl]+
c. [Cu(CN)4]3- k.[Co(NH3)5Br]SO4
d. [Cr(NH3)3Br3] l. [Co(NH3)5SO4]Br
e. [Fe(ox)3]3- m.[Cr(NH3)6][Co(CN)6]
f. [Ag(NH3)2]+ n. Na3[Co(NO2)6]
g. [Fe(H2O)6]3+ o. [Co(en)3]Cl3
h. [CuCl4]2-

2. Write formulas for the following:

a. dicyanoargentate (I) ion


b. tetrachlorodiamminenickelate (II) ion
c. hexachloroplatinate (IV) ion
d. sodium tetrachlorocuprate (II)
e. potassium hexacyanoferrate (II)
f. bis(ethylenediamine) copper (II) ion
g. tetraaquadihydroxoaluminum (III) chloride
h. amminechlorobis(ethylenediamine) chromium (III)sulfate
i. tetraaminediaquachromium (II) sulfate
j. sodium hexafluoroaluminate (III)
k. potassium tetracyanonickelate (II)
l. tetraamminenickel (II) perchlorate
m. chlorobis(ethylenediamine)thiocyanatocobalt (III) tetrachlorocadmate (II)
n. bis(ethylenediamine) sulfatoiron (II)
o. sodium hexanitritocobaltate (III)

3. For any of the following that can exist as isomers, state the type of isomerism and draw
the structures:
a) [Pt(CH3NH2)2Br2] b) [Pt(NH3)2FCl] c)[Pt(H2O)(NH3)FCl]

d) [PtCl2Br2]2- e) [Cr(NH3)5(NO2)]2+ f)[Pt(NH3)4I2]2+

4. Sketch the orientation of the orbitals relative to the ligands in an octahedral complex to
explain the splitting and the relative energies of the dxy and the dx2-y2 orbitals

5. Draw orbital-energy splitting diagrams and use the spectrochemical series to show the
orbital occupancy for each of the following:
a) [Cr(H2O)6]3+ b) [Cu(H2O)4]2+ c) [FeF6]3-

d) [MoCl6]3- e) [Ni(H2O)6]2+ f) [Ni(CN)4]2-


CHM361/E6/FFR

6. Rank the following complex ions in order of increasing  and energy of visible light
absorbed: [Cr(NH3)6]3+, [Cr(H2O)6]3+, [Cr(NO2)6]3-

7. The hexaaqua complex [Ni(H2O)6]2+ is green, whereas the hexaammonia complex


[Ni(NH3)6]2+ is violet. Explain.

8. The coordination compound [Pt(NH3)2(SCN)2] displays two types of isomerism. Name


the types and give names and structures for the six possible isomers.

9. A shortcut to finding optical isomers is to see if the complex has a plane of symmetry.
Use this approach to determine whether these exist as optical isomers:

a) [Zn(NH3)2Cl2] (tetrahedral) b) [Pt(en)2]2+ c) trans-[PtBr4Cl2]2-


d) trans- [Co(en)2F2]+ e) cis-[Co(en)2F2]+

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