ligand - Crunch Chemistry

The chemistry of amines

Amines are examples of organic nitrogen compounds and we can think of them as substituted ammonia molecules since they have

Virtually all transition metal compounds are coloured, a consequence of the way the 3d orbitals in the transition metal ion

The ligands in a transition metal complex can be exchanged e.g. ammonia ligands replacing water ligands. This happens either because

d-block metal cations readily form complexes with ligands – neutral molecules such as water or anions such as the chloride