Yaar, the IUPAC order always felt backwards until I wrote it on my guitar case: it's ligands first—in alphabetical order, ignoring prefixes—*then* the metal, *then* its oxidation state in Roman numerals. The real trick is to make it a rhythm, like the *dha-dhin-dhin-dha* of a tabla bol. I finally nailed it by writing the formula for a cobalt complex next to the chord chart for a song I was struggling with, and somehow both unlocked together.
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