JEE Main Chemistry question

According to IUPAC nomenclature, sodium nitroprusside is named as **[UP SEE 2007]**

(A)Sodium pentacyanonitrosylferrate(II)
(B)Sodium pentacyanonitrosylferrate(III)Correct
(C)Sodium nitroferricyanide
(D)Sodium nitroferrocyanide

Answer: (B)

Solution

Sodium nitroprusside, Na_2[Fe(CN)_5NO], has NO bound as a neutral ligand in this naming convention (treated per IUPAC as a neutral NO group rather than for oxidation-state counting here): with complex charge and five : $x +

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