ligand

See also: Ligand

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ligandus, gerundive of ligo (“bind”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪɡ.ənd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪɡ.ənd/, /ˈlaɪ.ɡənd/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡənd

Noun

ligand (plural ligands)

1. (inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially:
   1. (coordination chemistry) Such an entity that binds to a central metal atom to form a coordination complex.
   2. (biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, medicine) Such an entity that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose.

   Holonym: complex

2. (typography) A letter that orthography requires or allows to be ligated with one or more other letters to form a ligature, such as a in æ or o in œ.

   Holonym: ligature

Derived terms

• backbonding ligand
• bidentate ligand
• biligand
• bioligand
• bisligand
• bridging ligand
• coligand
• counterligand
• glycoligand
• heteroligand
• homoligand
• immunoligand
• interligand
• intraligand
• ligandable
• liganded
• ligand field theory
• ligandin
• liganding
• ligandless
• ligandlike
• ligandome
• ligandomic
• ligandomics
• macroligand
• monodentate ligand
• multidentate ligand
• multiligand
• neuroligand
• nonligand
• phospholigand
• postligand
• proligand
• pseudoligand
• radioligand
• sialoligand
• unliganded

 

Translations

something that binds to another chemical entity

• Arabic: ربيطة f (rabita)
• Bengali: লিগ্যান্ড (ligênḍ)
• Catalan: lligand m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 配體／配体 (zh) (pèitǐ)

• Finnish: ligandi (fi)
• French: ligand (fr) m
• Galician: ligando m
• German: Ligand (de) m
• Hebrew: ליגנד (he) m (ligand)
• Hungarian: ligandum
• Ido: ligando
• Indonesian: ligan (id)
• Irish: liogann m
• Italian: ligando (it) m, legante (it) m
• Japanese: 配位子 (はいいし, haiishi), リガンド (rigando)
• Kazakh: лиганд (ligand)
• Khmer: លីកង់ (liikɑng)
• Korean: 리간드 (rigandeu)
• Malay: ligan
• Persian: لیگاند (fa)
• Portuguese: ligando (pt) m, ligante m
• Russian: лига́нд (ru) m (ligánd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лига̀нди m

  Roman: ligàndi (sh) m

• Spanish: ligando (es) m
• Swedish: ligand (sv) c
• Tamil: ஈந்தணைவி (ta) (īntaṇaivi)
• Thai: ลิแกนด์ (lí-gaen)
• Ukrainian: ліга́нд m (lihánd)
• Vietnamese: phối tử (vi)

letter that must be ligated

See also

• coordination compound

Anagrams

• lading

French

Noun

ligand m (plural ligands)

1. ligand

Further reading

• “ligand”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.