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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Chelate and macrocyclic effects?

Also known as: chelate effect · macrocyclic effect

Definition 25.4 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 25 — Supramolecular Chemistry

The chelate effect is the greater stability of a complex with a polydentate ligand than with the equivalent number of monodentate ligands with the same donor atoms. The macrocyclic effect is the further stabilisation when the polydentate ligand is a ring rather than an open chain.

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