The Road Ahead

Having identified the important role of metals as the central atom in coordination chemistry it is appropriate at this time to recognize that the metal has partners and to reflect on the nature of the partnership. The partners are of course the ligands. A coordination complex can be thought of as the product of a molecular marriage - each partner, metal and ligand, brings something to the relationship, and the result of the union involves compromises that, when made, mean the union is distinctly different from the prior independent parts. While this analogy may be taking anthropomorphism to the extreme (unless one wants to carry it below even the atomic level) it is nevertheless not a bad analogy and not so unreasonable an outlook to think of a complex as a 'living' combination. After all, as we shall touch on later, it is not a totally inert combination. Metal complexes undergo ligand exchange (dare we talk of divorce and remarriage?) and can change their shape depending in part on their oxidation state and in part on their partner's preferences (shades of molecular-level compromise here?). With the right partner, the union will be strong, something that we can actually measure experimentally. It's no doubt stretching the analogy to talk of a perfect match, but the concept of fit and misfit between metals and ligands has been developed. What all of this playing with common human traits is about, is alerting you to core aspects of coordination chemistry - partnership and compromise.

In the rest of this book we will be examining in more detail ligands, metal-ligand assembly and the consequences. These include molecular shape, stability, properties and how we can measure and interpret these. Further, we will look at metal complexes in place - in nature and in commerce, and speculate on the future. Overall, the intent is to give as broad and deep an overview as is both reasonable and proper in an introductory text. Pray continue.

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دراسة: تناول القهوة يوميا يخفض خطر الإصابة بالاضطرابات النفسية

عرض شائع في الفم قد يكون مرتبطا بخطر الإصابة بأمراض خطيرة

نصائح عامة لاستخدام سماعات الرأس بأمان

تأثير اللياقة البدنية على الدماغ

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الآخبار التكنلوجية

ديدان الأرض تكشف تلوث التربة بالمعادن الثقيلة

خبير أرصاد جوية: ظاهرة النينيو القادمة قد تكون الأقوى خلال 10 سنوات

"ناسا" تكشف موعد إعادة إطلاق رحلتها المأهولة إلى القمر

علماء الجيولوجيا يفكون لغز الصدع العملاق تحت الماء في المحيط الأطلسي

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مواضيع ذات صلة

Meeting More Metals - Bridging Ligands

More Teeth Stronger Bite - Polydentates

Greed is Good– Polydentate Ligands The Simple Chelate

Monodentate Ligands– The Simple Type Basic Binders

Ligands with More Bite– Denticity

Different Tribes– Donor Group Variation

Do I Look Big on That?– Chelate Ring Size

Putting the Bite on Metals– Chelation

Making Attachments– Coordination

Natural or Made-to-Measure Complexes

Metals in Contrived Environments

Metals in the Natural World