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Explain homoleptic and heteroleptic complexes.

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Homoleptic: When metal atom /ion is linked with one type of ligands. Example: `[Ni(CO)_(4)]`
Heteroleptic : With the more than one kind of ligands. Example : `[CO(NH_(3))_(4)Cl_(2)]^(+)`
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