Chemistry · Chapter 19

Compasses and Claws

Two tools in one place. Weigh a complex in a magnetic field to count its unpaired electrons, then swap single bite ligands for a chelating claw and watch the grip tighten by billions of times.

The magnetic balance drag the measured moment

A sample between magnet poles, with a ruler of spin only moments

Swap the water off a nickel ion watch the rings close

Ligands replacing water on a nickel ion, with a stability bar chart

Which ion sets the d count

Field strength around it

Picking an ion moves the slider to the moment that ion should give. Then drag the slider yourself and read the count back off the ruler.

Build the complex

Live numbers

4unpaired electrons paramagnetic

Where this turns up

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