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When is the basicity of a molecule not a good indicator of whether it might be a good ligand?
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Ah sorry, I didn't see that. My thinking is that the basicity of the a molecule doesn't tell you about the quality of the ligand when it is a chelating ligand since this would give extra stability to the complex that may not be accounted for in the pH of the ligand.
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I am not an inorganic or organometallic chemist, but there is one kind of stabilization involving orbitals that I can think of, that a metal might have that a proton does not have. Maybe that is what you mean.
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Were it me answering the question, my mind would be going in the direction of steric effects.
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