Coordination Compounds - Result Question 19
####21. According to IUPAC nomenclature sodium nitroprusside is named as
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(a) Sodium pentacyanonitrosyl ferrate (III)
(b) Sodium nitroferrocyanide
(c) Sodium nitroferrocyanide
(d) Sodium pentacyanonitrosyl ferrate (II)
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Solution:
- (a) IUPAC name of sodium nitroprusside
is sodium pentacyanonitrosoyl ferrate (III) because in it NO is neutral ligand. Hence
O.N. of