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SATURATION
• When a particular metal ion achieves it highest known
coordination number, it is said that coordination saturation has occurred.
eg. for Co & Fe 6 is the no. for
saturation
• A metal is coordinatively saturated when it achieves its
maximum coordination number.
• All the first row transition metals have 6 as
the highest known coordination number.
the highest known coordination number.
• In these lectures, we are concerned chiefly with complexes
which have a coordination of four or six.
