A Simple Method for Drawing Chiral Mononuclear Octahedral Metal Complexes
Aminou Mohamadou and Arnaud Haudrechy
ICMR (Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Reims), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Faculté des Sciences, 51687 Reims Cedex 2, France
Octahedral transition-metal complexes are involved in a number of reactions and octahedral coordination geometry, frequently observed for metallic centers, includes important topographical stereochemistry. Depending on the number and nature of different ligands, octahedral coordination units with at least two different monodentate ligands give many isomers. In this didactical article, we present a simple and progressive method to draw all of these octahedral complexes and show their chiral properties.
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Mohamadou, Aminou; Haudrechy, Arnaud. J. Chem. Educ.2008, 85, 436.
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