A ligand is an ion or molecule that donates a pair of electrons to the central metal atom or ion to form a coordination ...

A ligand is an ion or small molecule that binds to a metal atom (in chemistry) or to a biomolecule (in biochemistry) to form a complex, such as the iron-cyanide coordination complex Prussian blue ...

Coordination chemistry is the ... Photoinduced metal-to-ligand (or ligand-to-metal) charge-transfer (CT) states in metal complexes have been extensively studied, but primarily limited to CT ...