Coordinate (dative covalent) bonding
What Coordinate (dative covalent) bonding means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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A bond that forms when one atom donates both electrons of the shared pair, so a shared pair need not come from one electron per atom.
Bonding in which the donated lone pair is accepted into a vacant orbital on the metal, so both shared electrons come from the ligand.
Topics that use Coordinate (dative covalent) bonding
- Bonding and structure (OCR A-Level)
- Transition elements (OCR A-Level)
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- Average bond enthalpy
- Averaging over similar compounds and its limitation
- Balanced ionic equations for precipitation
- Balancing complex half-equations
- bidentate ligands
- Bidentate ligands giving octahedral complexes
- Bond angles
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