Using alternate Greek prefixes

[Sydney Myers 4I]

I know that there's a different set of prefixes to use when a molecule is polydentate, but are there any tricks to use in figuring out if a ligand is polydentate?

[Vincent Leong 2B]

I'd say your best bet is looking at the lewis structure of the ligand and counting the amount of lone pairs, especially on nitrogen atoms, and counting them as regions where it can latch onto a transition metal complex. As long as the center transition metal has more than 1 bond formed, it will be polydentate.

[Anthony Hatashita 4H]

There's a table in the textbook that shows the most common polydendate ligands