ligand

See also: Ligand

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪɡənd/

Noun

ligand (plural ligands)

1. (chemistry) An ion, molecule, or functional group that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex.
2. (typography) A letter that orthography requires to be ligated with one or more other letters.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• backbonding ligand
• bidentate ligand
• bridging ligand

• ligand field theory
• monodentate ligand
• multidentate ligand

Translations

something that binds to another chemical entity

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

  Mandarin: 配体 (zh) (pèitǐ), 配體／配体 (zh) (pèi tǐ)

• Finnish: ligandi (fi)
• French: ligand (fr) m
• Galician: ligando m
• German: Ligand (de) m
• Hebrew: ליגנד (he) m (ligand)
• Hungarian: ligandum
• Ido: ligando
• Irish: liogann m
• Italian: ligando (it) m, legante (it) m
• Japanese: 配位子 (はいいし, haiishi), リガンド (rigando)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kazakh: лиганд (ligand)
• Korean: 리간드 (rigandeu)
• Malay: ligan
• Persian: لیگاند (fa)
• Portuguese: ligando 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

letter that must be ligated

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• coordination compound

Anagrams

• lading