Which of the following ligands would act as flexidentate ligand and ambidentate ligand?

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$\begin{aligned} {SO}_{3}^{2 -} \end{aligned}$

${NO}_{3}^{-}$

${CO}_{3}^{2 -}$

None of these

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

Since $\begin{aligned} {SO}_{3}^{2 -} \end{aligned}$ have more than two donor sites and only one donor atom is bonded to the metal during complex formation, despite having two or more donor atoms, they behave as ambidentate and flexidentate.
Hence, option A is correct.

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