Chemistry · Chapter 19

Build a Complex, Slot by Slot

Choose a metal ion and a shape, then snap ligands into the open slots. A bidentate ligand takes two slots at once and EDTA takes all six, so the ligand count and the coordination number are not the same thing.

The coordination sphere grey slots are still open

The coordination sphere with its filled and open slots octahedral, 6 slots 90 and 180 degree angles

Metal ion charge is fixed per button

Shape, which sets the number of slots

Ligands click to attach

Jump to a real compound

Live numbers

0coordination number open

What you are looking at

bonds, not ligands
Pick a ligand to start