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The document contains 30 multiple choice questions about coordination compounds. Some key topics covered include types of ligands and their bonding properties, isomerism in coordination compounds, IUPAC naming of complexes, and examples of common complexes. The questions test understanding of coordination number, oxidation states, electronic configurations of metals in complexes, and relative stabilities of complexes containing different transition metal ions.

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Coordination Compounds - Question

The document contains 30 multiple choice questions about coordination compounds. Some key topics covered include types of ligands and their bonding properties, isomerism in coordination compounds, IUPAC naming of complexes, and examples of common complexes. The questions test understanding of coordination number, oxidation states, electronic configurations of metals in complexes, and relative stabilities of complexes containing different transition metal ions.

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Homework Coordination Compounds

COORDINATION COMPOUNDS

1. Which of the following is odd one out?


(A) potassium ferricyanide (B) ferrous ammonium sulphate
(C) potassium ferrocyanide (D) tetra ammine copper (II) sulphate
2. An example for a double salt is
(A) Cuprammonium sulphate (B) Mohr’s salt
(C) Potassium ferricyanide (D) hexammine Cobalt (III) chloride
3. Some salts although containing two different metallic elements give test for only one of them in solution. Such
salts are
(A) Complexes (B) Double salts (C) Normal salts (D) None
4. In the compound lithium tetrahydrido-alumninate, (III) the ligand is
(A) A  (B) H (C) H- (D) None of these
5. In which of the following coordinate compounds the central metal atom obeys the EAN rule
(A) K 3  Fe  CN 6  (B) K 4  Fe  CN 6  (C) Cu  NH 3 4  SO 4 (D) All
3
6. The EAN of iron in is  Fe  CN 6 
(A) 34 (B) 36 (C) 37 (D) 35
4
7. Coordination number of Ni in  Ni  C 2O 4 3  is
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 4 (D) 5
8. According to Lewis, the ligands are
(A) Acidic in nature (B) Basic in nature
(C) Neither acidic nor basic (D) Some are acidic and others are basic
9. Chemical formula for iron (III) hexacyanoferrate (II) is
(A) Fe  Fe  CN 6  (B) Fe3  Fe  CN 6  (C) Fe3  Fe  CN 6  4 (D) Fe 4  Fe  CN 6  3

10. IUPAC name of Na 3 Co  NO 2 6  is


(A) sodium cobaltinitrite (B) sodium hexanitritocobaltate (III)
(C) sodium hexanitrocobalt (III) (D) sodium hexanitrocobaltate (III)
11. The chemical formula for iron (III) hexacyanoferrate (II) is
(A) Fe  Fe  CN 6  (B) Fe3  Fe  CN 6  (C) Fe3  Fe  CN 6  4 (D) Fe 4  Fe  CN 6  3

12. The compounds  PtCl 2  NH 3 4  Br2 and  PtBr2  NH 3 4  Cl 2 constitutes a pair of


(A) Coordination isomers (B) Linkage isomers
(C) Ionization isomers (D) Optical isomers
13. Which of the following cannot show linkage isomerism ?
(A) NO 2 (B) SCN  (C) CN (D) NH3
14. Which one of the following will not show geometrical isomerism ?
(A)  Cr  NH 3 4 Cl 2  Cl (B)  Co  en 2 Cl2  Cl

(C)  Co  NH 3 5 NO 2  Cl2 (D)  Pt  NH 3  2 Cl 2 

15. The correct structure of Fe  CO 5 is (Z=26 for Fe)


(A) Octahedral (B) Tetrahedral
(C) Square pyramidal (D) Trigonal pyramidal

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16. Which one of the following is an example of octahedral complex?


3 2 2 2
(A)  FeF6  (B)  Zn  NH 3 4  (C)  Ni  CN 4  (D) Cu  NH3  4 

17 IUPAC name of Na 3 Co  ONO 6  is


(A) Sodium cobaltinitrite (B) Sodium hexanitrito cobaltate (III)
(C) Sodium hexanitrocobalt (III) (D) Sodium hexanitritocobaltate (II)
18 CH3  Mg  Br is an organo metallic compound due to
(A) Mg - Br bond (B) C - Mg bond (C) C - Br bond (D) C - H bond
2
19. The atomic number of copper is 29, its EAN in Cu  NH 3 4  is
(A) 35 (B) 36 (C) 49 (D) 40
20. Co  NH 3  4 Cl2  NO2 and

Co  NH 3 4 Cl.NO2  Cl are isomers of which type


(A) Geometrical (B) Optical (C) Linkage (D) Ionization
21. The formula of prussian blue is
(A) Fe3  Fe  CN 6  2 (B) Fe2  Fe  CN 6  3 (C) Fe4  Fe  CN 6  3 (D) Fe3  Fe  CN 6  4
22. The formula of sodium nitroprusside is
(A) Na4  Fe  CN 5 NOS  (B) Na2  Fe  CN 5 NO 

(C) NaFe  Fe  CN 6  (D) Na2  Fe  CN 6 NO2 


23. Trunbull’s blue is
(A) Ferricyanide (B) Ferrous ferrocyanide
(C) Ferrous cyanide (D) Ferriferrocyanide
24. Dimethylglyoxime is an example of a
(A) Monodentate ligand (B) Bidentate ligand
(C) Tridentate ligand (D) Hexadentate ligand
25. The oxidation state and coordination number of cobalt in the CoCl3.5NH3 complex are, respectively
(A) 3 and 6 (B) 6 and 3 (C) 6 and 2 (D) 5 and 3
26. Which of the following pairs are coordination isomers?
(A) Co  NH 3 5 Br  SO4 and Co  NH 3 5 SO4  Br

(B) Co  en 2  H 2O  Cl  Cl2 and Co  en 2 Cl2  Cl .H 2O

(C) Co  NH 3 6  Cr  CN 6  and CO  CN 6  Cr  NH 3 6 

(D) Co  NH 3 5  NO2  Cl2 and Co  NH 3 5  ONO  Cl2

27. The IUPAC name of K 2  Ni  CN 4  is


(A) Nickel tetracyanokalium (I) (B) Potassium tetracyanonickelate (II)
(C) Tetracyanonickelkalium (I) (D) Potassium nickel tetracyanide
28. The stabilities of coordination compounds containing the ions Cu 2 , Ni 2 , Co 2 , Fe 2 and Mn2 follow the
order
(A) Mn 2  Fe 2  Co 2  Ni 2  Cu 2 (B) Ni 2  Cu 2  Fe 2  Co 2  Mn 2
(C) Cu 2  Ni 2  Co 2  Fe 2  Mn 2 (D) Fe2  Mn 2  Ni 2  Co 2  Cu 2

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29. Which of the following are  - bonded organo metallic compounds ?
(A) Ferrocene (B) Diethyl zinc
(C) Ethylmagnesium iodide (D) T. E. L
30. Diethylene triamine is
(A) Chelating agent (B) Monodentate ligand
(C) Tridentate ligand (D) A and C

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