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Why do transition elements form complexes?

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4 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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4 Years ago
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It forms complexes due to the presence of vacant d orbitals. These metals and their ions easily coordinate with a number of negative ions or neutral molecules having lone pairs of electrons to form a complex. ... Hence transition element form complexes.