Lec 27 MIT 5 111 Principles of Chemical Science Fall 2005

Description: binding to the metal. Anything above one would be considered a chelate if it has two points of attachment or three or four. Bidendate means two points. And this nomenclature, not too challenging. People are usually pretty good at guessing what they mean. Tridentate would have how many points of attachment? Three. Tetradentate? Four. Hexadendate? Six. There are some people, this was a question, I think, hexadentate on a final one year people got it wrong. Don't get something like that wrong ...