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Fe3+ Fe2+ Co2+ Cu2+

Cr3+

14 of each in VMD then droppered PowerPoint background to match


H: R=0.56, G=0, B=0
O: white
Fe (F): R=42, G=61, B=005
Changing the Ligand

Co2+ Cr3+

Co(NH3)62+ Cr(NH3)63+
Changing the Ligand 2

Fe2+ Fe3+ Co2+ Cu2+


Cr3+

Cr(OH2)(H2O)6 3+
Central ion: R=0.47
Fe(OH2)(H2O)6 3+ Cu(OH2)(H2O)6 2+
G=0.58, B=0.58
Central ion: R=0.58 Central ion: R=0.44
Co(OH2)(H2O)6 2+
Fe(OH2)(H2O)6 2+ G=0.4, B=0.05 G=0.59, B=1
Central ion: R=0.29
violet-colored [(NH3)5Co-SCN]2+ and orange-colored
[(NH3)5Co-NCS]2+. The isomerization of the S-bonded isomer
to the N-bonded isomer occurs intramolecularly
V3+
V2+
Offcuts chromium was named after the Greek word chroma — which
means colour — by Louis Nicholas Vauquelin, who discovered
the element in 1797

Fe(OH2)(H2O)6 2+

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