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Coordination Compounds
Level - 1 DTS 1 - 5

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

C D B C C B B D D A D D B C C

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

B B D C D B D B C C C A A C C

31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45

C B B A D B A B A D D B C A D

46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

B A D A D D D D A B A C A A B

61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75

D D B A C D C B A C A D C D B

Level - 2 DTS 6 - 10

76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90

B ACD C C D B D C C D D B C B B

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105

A A D C C B A C CD B C B D B B

106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116

B B A A C A B B [A-1, 2, 3, 4] [B-1, 4] [C-2, 3, 4] [D-2, 3, 4] C B

117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125

B A C C A B C B B

Numerical Value Type DTS - 11

126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140

3 6 8 5 6 6 6 60 10 0 2 41 0 3 2

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 JEE Main (Archive) DTS 1 - 5

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

B B C B D A C D C D C D C B A

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

D B D D A C A D A C A A B C C

31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45

B C B B A D C C D D D D C C A

46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

B B C B D C B A D C C B B D C

61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75

A A D D B D B B D A A 3 C B A

76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88

A B 20.00 D D C D C B 26.91 B D A

JEE Advanced (Archive) DTS 1 - 4

4
1.(F) Only Fe(CN)6  (ferrocyanide) is diamagnetic 2.(C) 3. Hexamminecobalt(III) chloride

4.(CD) Only two complexes - Cr(NH3)6  Cl3 and K3  VF6  are coloured. Other having all paired electrons are colourless.

5. (i) Pentamminenitritocobalt(III) chloride 6.(D) 7.(D)

(ii) Potassium hexacyanochromate(III)
(iii) Pentamminecarbonatochromium(III) chloride

8. (i) CoCl(NH3 )5 2 (ii) LiAlH4 9.(C)

10. Pentaammineisothiocyanatochromium(III) tetrachlorozincate.

In this compound the oxidation state of Cr is  3 i.e., Cr3 with configuration 3d3 . Because of incompletely filled d-orbitals
this complex will be coloured. (d-d transition can occurs). 11.(C) 12.(C)

13. A : Cr(H2O)6  Cl3 ; B :  Cr (H2O)5 Cl(H2O)Cl2 ; C : Cr(H2O)4 Cl2 (H2O2)Cl

14. Co(NH3 )6 3 

 d2sp3 (octahedral) 15.(A)
2
Ni(CN)4   dsp2 (square planar)

 sp3(tetrahedral)
Ni(CO)4 

16.  Cr(NH3 )4 BrCl Cl;

A  3 O.S.;   3.87BM 17. NiCl4 2 : sp3 (tetrahedral);   2.82BM
2
  Cr (NH3 )4 Cl2 Br ;
B  3 O.S.;   3.87BM Ni(CN)4  : sp3 (square planar);   2.82BM

19.(D) 20.(C) 21. Co(NH3 )6 3 : d2sp3 ; Ni(CN)4 2 : dsp2 ; Ni(CO)4  : dsp2 22.(B)

23. (a) Bis(dimethyl glyoximato) nickel(II) (b) Ni2 ; dsp2 24.(A)

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 (c)   0 BM, so the complex is diamagnetic
2 3
25. A  Fe(SCN)(H2O5 ) ; B  FeF6  ; IUPAC name of (A)  pentaaquathiocyantoferrate(III) ion; (B) :   5.92 BM
26.(D) 27.(A) 28.(C) 29.(A) 30.(D)
31. [A-p, q, s] [B-q, s] [B-r, t] [D-q, t] 32.(C) 33.(B) 34.(B) 35.(A)

36.(A) 37.(CD) 38.(4) 39.(B) 40.(C) 41.(B) 42.(D)

43.(3) 44.(C) 45.(B) 46.(6) 47.(C) 48.(B) 49.(BD)

50.(8) 51.(B) 52.(B) 53.(D) 54.(3) 55.(6) 56.(4)

57.(5) 58.(B) 59.(A) 60.(BC) 61.(ABD) 62. 2992 g

63.(C) 64.(6)

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