We must state certain principles for identifying coordination compounds in order to solve issues like these:
- cation is named before the anion
- In the complexion, we name ligands before metal ions, in alphabetical order
- A numerical prefix is the number of ligands of a particular type
- The oxidation state of the metal ion is written by roman numerals in parentheses if the metal ion has more than one oxidation state
- If the complex ion is an anion, we add -ate instead of the ending of the metal name
- Neutral ligands most often have molecule names, but anionic ligands lose the -ide and add after the root name
a) - potassium amminepentachloroplatinate(IV)
b) - diammine(ehtylenediammine)copper(II)
(ethylenediammine)tetrachlorocobaltate(II)
c) - dibromobis(ethylenediammine)platinum(IV) perchlorate