Why water is monodentet? Wheather it has two Pairs of lonely electrons?

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Truong-Son N.
Mar 25, 2018

Because they're on the same atom...

The number of teeth on a ligand depends on the number of atoms with a lone pair, not the number of lone pairs. Having both lone pairs from the same atom bind to the same transition metal is not possible.

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