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Somebody please please please what would the formula of the complex Diamminebis(ethylenediamine)chromium (III) hexacyanoferrate (II) would be?
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What do you think it is?
do you mean something like this?

http://prntscr.com/50ek8e
(edited 9 years ago)
Original post by theflyingepergne
do you mean something like this?

http://prntscr.com/50ek8e


Yeah all those different parts but in one complex? I thought it was something like [Cr(NH3)2(en)2Fe(CN)6] but that sounds so wrong.
Original post by Laura05Apple
Yeah all those different parts but in one complex? I thought it was something like [Cr(NH3)2(en)2Fe(CN)6] but that sounds so wrong.


Oh I see, yeah what you've written sounds right but I'm pretty sure they're separate complexes.

So it would be:
[Cr(en)2(NH3)2]
[Fe(CN)6]

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