ligand

ligand

See also: Ligand

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ligand (plural ligands)

1. (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

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 (ligẏanḍô) 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 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 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

See also

• coordination compound

Anagrams

• lading

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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.