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Coordination complex analyser

Give a coordination complex by its formula or its name and get what ISC Chemistry asks about it: the IUPAC name, oxidation state, coordination number, hybridisation and shape, unpaired electrons and magnetic moment, inner or outer orbital, crystal field splitting and isomers - with the valence bond box diagram.

Try: [Co(NH3)6]Cl3K4[Fe(CN)6][Ni(CN)4]2-[NiCl4]2-[CoF6]3-potassium trioxalatochromate(III)

Answer

[Ni(CN)4]2−

IUPAC name
tetracyanidonickelate(II)
Hybridisation
dsp2
Shape
square planar
Oxidation state of Ni
+2
Coordination number
4
Unpaired electrons
0
Magnetic
diamagnetic, μ = 0.0 BM
Isomerism
none

Valence bond picture

Free Ni2+ ion (d8)

↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↑3d4s4p

In the complex (dsp2; ×× = a ligand’s electron pair)

↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓××3d××4s××××4p

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