## Total Charge

Reese - Dis 1G
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### Total Charge

How can you find the total charge of a complex if you are given the oxidation state?

Michelle Wang 4I
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### Re: Total Charge

If you have the oxidation state of the transition metal, then you can look at the charges of the ligands and add them together. If the oxidation state of the TM is +3, but the total charge of the ligands is -2, then the total charge of the coordination compound is +1.

Jonathan Cheng 3C
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### Re: Total Charge

You have to add up the charge of the transition metal and the charges of all the ligands attached to the transition metal

Pritish Patil 1K
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### Re: Total Charge

Add up the charges of the ligands and the transition metal.

LaurenJuul_1B
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### Re: Total Charge

just add up all of the charges of the transition metal and ligands

Karla_Ocampo 4E
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### Re: Total Charge

In order to find this total charge, you would have to sum the charges of the transition metal and the ligands.
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