Question

The number of binding sites in these chemical species defines their denticity. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these chemical species that bind to metal ions to form coordination complexes.
ANSWER: ligands
[10m] These kinds of ligands, which are often denoted by the Greek letter mu, can connect to two or more metal ions. Ligands of this kind convert into terminal ligands and vice versa during namesake exchanges.
ANSWER: bridging ligands [accept bridge-terminal exchanges]
[10h] Two pentamminerutheium (“pen-tah-MEE-neh-ROO-thin-ee-um”) are bridged by a pyrazine ligand to form this doubly eponymous complex, whose two ruthenium ions display an apparent oxidation state of plus two and a half.
ANSWER: Creutz-Taube complex [or Creutz-Taube ion]
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Berkeley CBerkeley B1001020
StanfordBerkeley A100010
Ohio State CCarnegie Mellon0000
Michigan AMichigan B100010
PittsburghMichigan State100010
WUSTLIllinois A1010020
Indiana AChicago A100010
Northwestern APurdue1010020
MinnesotaNorthwestern B100010
Notre Dame AIllinois B100010
Chicago BNotre Dame B10101030
SIUENotre Dame C100010
UF AUCF100010
UF CUF B1010020
BUBrandeis0000
Harvard AHarvard B1010020
MITTufts1010020
Yale AYale B1001020
ColumbiaJHU B1001020
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NYU APrinceton100010
HoustonTexas A100010
TAMUTexas B100010
Say it3HK1MM100010
Four Times I Have Despised My SoulThe Crying of Team 49100010
Gressenheller ALSE100010
See itOxford School for Quizness1010020
SortedLimp Chriskit100010
Duke AUNC B100010
UNC ARIT A10101030
UNC CVirginia Tech A100010