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Topic: why doesn't four cyanide ligands form a tetrahedral geometry with Cobalt 2+ ion?  (Read 3327 times)

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Offline sd79812

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Is there something about the repulsion of the lone pair on thenitrogen that prevents the cyanides being all on the same plane?

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