Topic: Werner's theory, ligands, coordination number, denticity, chelation· Coordination Compounds

Iron carbonyl, Fe(CO)_5 is

1. tetranuclear

2. trinuclear

3. mononuclear

4. dinuclear

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Answer: 3. mononuclear

\(\mathrm{Fe(CO)_5}\) contains one metal atom, so it is mononuclear. Dinuclear and polynuclear carbonyls like \(\mathrm{Mn_2(CO)_{10}}\) and \(\mathrm{Fe_3(CO)_{12}}\) have more than one metal atom.

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