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Intro CASE STUDY CHM361

Coordination compounds are substances with a central metal atom surrounded by nonmetal ligands bonded to it. They include important compounds like vitamin B12, hemoglobin, and chlorophyll. Transition metals can form coordination complexes due to their high charge to mass ratio and d-orbital availability. Coordination compounds have many applications in industries like mining and medicine. They are commonly used as dyes and pigments due to their intense and specific colors, such as in fabrics and the pigment Prussian blue.

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Intro CASE STUDY CHM361

Coordination compounds are substances with a central metal atom surrounded by nonmetal ligands bonded to it. They include important compounds like vitamin B12, hemoglobin, and chlorophyll. Transition metals can form coordination complexes due to their high charge to mass ratio and d-orbital availability. Coordination compounds have many applications in industries like mining and medicine. They are commonly used as dyes and pigments due to their intense and specific colors, such as in fabrics and the pigment Prussian blue.

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INTRODUCTION

Coordination compound, any of a class of substances with chemical structures in which a central
metal atom is surrounded by nonmetal atoms or groups of atoms, called ligands, joined to it by
chemical bonds. Coordination compounds include such substances as vitamin B12, hemoglobin,
and chlorophyll, dyes and pigments, and catalysts used in preparing organic substances.
Coordination compounds are a class of compounds that we know as the complex compounds.
We have known enough about these compounds already, including their structures and isomers.
We know that transition metals have this special property of forming coordination complexes.
This is due to the high charge to mass ratio and also the availability of d-orbitals. The advances
in coordination chemistry provide various complex compounds that we use in various industries.
Coordination compounds are a common application in various industries. These include mining
& metallurgy and medical sciences.

The applications of coordination compounds in chemistry and technology are many and varied.
Coordination compounds have been used from the earliest times as dyes and pigments, for
example madder dye which is red, was used by the ancient Greeks and others. It is a complex of
hydroxyanthraquinone. A more modern example is the pigment copper phthalocyanine, which is
blue. The brilliant and intense colours of many coordination compounds, such as Prussian blue,
render them of great value as dyes and pigments. Coordination compounds have specific colours.
Therefore, they find a common place in industries for intense colourations. Phthalocyanine is a
class of coordination complexes that the dyes and pigments industry extensively use, containing
large-ring ligands closely related to the porphyrins, constitute an important class of dyes for
fabrics. They use it to impart specific colouration to fabrics. The applications of coordination
compounds in chemistry and technology are many and varied. The brilliant and intense colours
of many coordination compounds, such as Prussian blue, render them of great value as dyes and
pigments.

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