Transition Metal Complexes

[Ian_Lee_1E]

Hello, I was wondering how many bonds can T.M. complexes make in a solution.

Some say they are tetrahedral and some say they are octahedral. How do we know how many bonds can each transition metals make?

[Janelle Gokim 3B]

I think Dr Lavelle mentioned that we would only be working with up to octahedral complexes, meaning 6 bonds. The number of ligands will tell you the number of bonds you will have. Looking specifically at the transition metals, I believe Fe tends to form 6 coordinate covalent bonds, but other than that I'm not sure of a way to pinpoint how many bonds each transition metal will make solely on its properties.

[Emmeline Phu 1G]

Hi! We can determine the number of bonds by looking at the number of ligands directly bonded to the metal. For example, in the lecture an example of a coordination compound with a cobalt cation was show; six ligands were bonded directly to the transitional metal indicating an octahedral structure. Hope this helps! :)

[Margaret Wang 2D]

The transition metals we will be working with will mostly be the 1st row ones, which he said would be 6 bonds max normally.

[Alex Benson]

Hi! Out of the transition metals, I believe that the maximum amount of bond is 6. Also I think that various transition metals are able to make 6 bonds.

[Chinmayi Mutyala 3H]

Whether it is tetrahedral or octohedral depends on the number of ligands it is bonded two, 4 for tetrahedral/square planer and 6 for octohedral.