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I'm confused on these two terms. The textbook uses the form cyanido, but Lavelle wrote cyano for a naming example in lecture. Can they be used interchangeably, or are they different?

There's a few different naming conventions. The textbook uses one while Dr. Lavelle uses another. They technically are the same thing but just keep in mind that if you choose to use a particular convention, you should stick with the same one throughout naming the compound

They mean the same thing and just are different conventions. I'm going to use Lavelle's naming scheme since it is on his website.

I believe cyano is basically a shorthand for cyanido. As long as it ends in o for an electrostatically charged ligand, it is named correctly

i think technically both are right. I would stick with cyano because that's what Professor Lavelle used in class

They are interchangable and should give the same points on a test