Welcome to the Library of Inorganic Molecules, Polyhedra and Bioinorganic Structures
Click on each of the elements in the Periodic table to view a list of structures containing that element.
The Periodic Table
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Many of the inorganic compounds in this collection are metal centres surrounded and stabilized by small molecules, these supporting molecules are called ligands. An array of such ligands around a center is termed a complex. The following is a list of the ligands found in this library of structures with links to example inorganic complexes:
| 18-crown-6 | 221-crypt | 222-crypt | 4,4-bipyridine | acac | BH4 | binap | bipy | bissalicylaldehyde | bn | C2H4 | C6H6 | C6Me6 | C60 | C7H7 | CN | CO | cod | cot | Cp | CpMe5 | cycloheptatriene | diars | dien | dipamp | dmapy | dmpm | dppe | dppm | edta | en | fluorenyl | fod | H2 | H3 | heme | indenyl | Me | N2 | NCS | NH3 | NMe2 | NMe3 | NO3 | OH2 | OPPh3 | ox | PCy3 | PEt3 | phen | PMe3 | PPh3 | py | pyrazine | salenpy | SnCl3 | terpy | tmpyp |