{"id":148937,"date":"2024-02-27T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=148937"},"modified":"2024-02-27T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:47:01","slug":"what-is-the-coordination-number-of-co-in-coen2-c12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/quiz\/what-is-the-coordination-number-of-co-in-coen2-c12","title":{"rendered":"What is the coordination number of Co in [Co(en)2 C12]+?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What is the coordination number of Co in [Co(en)2 C12]+?<\/h3>\n<h3>Ans.<\/h3>\n<h3>In the coordination compound <span class=\"math math-inline\"><span class=\"katex\"><span class=\"katex-mathml\">[\ufffd\ufffd(\ufffd\ufffd)2\ufffd\ufffd2]+<\/span><span class=\"katex-html\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"base\"><span class=\"mopen\">[<\/span><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">C<\/span><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">o<\/span><span class=\"mopen\">(<\/span><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">e<\/span><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">n<\/span><span class=\"mclose\">)<span class=\"msupsub\"><span class=\"vlist-t vlist-t2\"><span class=\"vlist-r\"><span class=\"vlist\"><span class=\"sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight\"><span class=\"mord mtight\">2<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"vlist-s\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">C<\/span><span class=\"mord\"><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">l<\/span><span class=\"msupsub\"><span class=\"vlist-t vlist-t2\"><span class=\"vlist-r\"><span class=\"vlist\"><span class=\"sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight\"><span class=\"mord mtight\">2<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"vlist-s\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mclose\">]<span class=\"msupsub\"><span class=\"vlist-t\"><span class=\"vlist-r\"><span class=\"vlist\"><span class=\"sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight\"><span class=\"mbin mtight\">+<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, the coordination number of cobalt (Co) can be determined by examining the number of ligands directly attached to the central cobalt ion.<\/h3>\n<h3>Here, the ligands are ethylenediamine (en) molecules and chloride ions (Cl^-).<\/h3>\n<h3>From the formula, we see that there are 2 ethylenediamine (en) molecules, each contributing 2 nitrogen atoms (N) to coordinate with the cobalt ion. Therefore, there are a total of 4 nitrogen atoms from the ethylenediamine ligands.<\/h3>\n<h3>Additionally, there are 2 chloride ions (Cl^-) coordinating with the cobalt ion.<\/h3>\n<h3>Hence, the total number of ligands coordinating with the cobalt ion is 4 (from ethylenediamine) + 2 (from chloride ions) = 6.<\/h3>\n<h3>Therefore, the coordination number of cobalt (Co) in <span class=\"math math-inline\"><span class=\"katex\"><span class=\"katex-mathml\">[\ufffd\ufffd(\ufffd\ufffd)2\ufffd\ufffd2]+<\/span><span class=\"katex-html\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"base\"><span class=\"mopen\">[<\/span><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">C<\/span><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">o<\/span><span class=\"mopen\">(<\/span><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">e<\/span><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">n<\/span><span class=\"mclose\">)<span class=\"msupsub\"><span class=\"vlist-t vlist-t2\"><span class=\"vlist-r\"><span class=\"vlist\"><span class=\"sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight\"><span class=\"mord mtight\">2<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"vlist-s\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">C<\/span><span class=\"mord\"><span class=\"mord mathnormal\">l<\/span><span class=\"msupsub\"><span class=\"vlist-t vlist-t2\"><span class=\"vlist-r\"><span class=\"vlist\"><span class=\"sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight\"><span class=\"mord mtight\">2<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"vlist-s\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mclose\">]<span class=\"msupsub\"><span class=\"vlist-t\"><span class=\"vlist-r\"><span class=\"vlist\"><span class=\"sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight\"><span class=\"mbin mtight\">+<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> is 6.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the coordination number of Co in [Co(en)2 C12]+? Ans. In the coordination compound [\ufffd\ufffd(\ufffd\ufffd)2\ufffd\ufffd2]+[Co(en)2\u200bCl2\u200b]+, the coordination number of cobalt (Co) can be determined by examining the number of ligands directly attached to the central cobalt ion. Here, the ligands are ethylenediamine (en) molecules and chloride ions (Cl^-). From the formula, we see that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":114041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12119],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quiz"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148938,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148937\/revisions\/148938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}