Quick Recap — IUPAC Nomenclature
- Order in the name: ligands (alphabetical) then metal; cation named before anion.
- Anionic complex takes the suffix -ate (ferrate, cuprate, aluminate, platinate).
- Ligand names: aqua (), ammine (), carbonyl (CO), chlorido (), cyanido (), hydroxido ().
- Oxidation state is shown as a Roman numeral in parentheses; homoleptic = one kind of ligand, heteroleptic = more than one.