homoligand

English

Etymology

homo- +‎ ligand

Noun

homoligand (plural homoligands)

1. (inorganic chemistry) Any of a group of identical ligands in a complex
   • 2015 November 11, “Response to “Critical Assessment of the Evidence for Striped Nanoparticles””, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Stirling et al. do not provide any justification for the spacing of the features that we find on nanoparticles: ~1 nm for mixed ligand particles and ~ 0.5 nm for homoligand particles.

Related terms

• heteroligand