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Describe Werner's coordination theory and give his main proposals

Describe Werner's coordination theory and give his main proposals.

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It was the first thory that could adequately account for the formation of complex compounds from valence saturated simple molecules.
His main proposals and possessions of this theory are;
1) Majority of elements display two types of valencies i.e a) Main valence which is ionisable and corresponds to the oxidation state.
b)Secondary valence which is non-ionisable and corresponds to coordination number.

2)He states that every element tends to possess both the main and secondary valencies.

3)Secondary valence is directed to exactly fixed postions in space
WANJALA002 answered the question on May 22, 2018 at 08:03

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