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What are stereoisomers?

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(i) The stereoisemers of a coordination compounds have the same chemical formula and connectivity between the central metal atom and the ligands .
(ii) But they differ in the spatial arrangement of ligands in three dimensional space .They can be further classified as geometrical isomers and optical isomers .
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