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Coordination number 4 complexes have two possible geometries: tetrahedral and square planar. The tetrahedral complexes look much like molecules of type AX4, as VSEPR would predict. The bond angles are 109.5o.

An example of a tetrahedral complex is the [NiCO4] molecule
[NiCO4] Tetrahedral


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