polydentate

[Ashley McClearnen 1B]

How do you know if a ligand is polydenate?

[Tiffany_Cacy_3D]

A ligand is polydentate if it has more than one place where it is binding to a central metal atom. An example of this would be EDTA, which binds to a metal in six different places, also known as a hexadentate ligand.

[megan blatt 2B]

I understand that if a ligand is bonding in multiple places to a central transition metal that it is a polydentate, but if the structure is not already drawn, how would you know if the ligand has the potential to be a polydentate and bind in multiple places?