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PublisherSpringer

ISBN-100306452480

ISBN-139780306452482

eBay Product ID (ePID)705213

Product Key Features

Number of PagesX, 254 Pages

Publication NameMetal Complexes in Aqueous Solutions

LanguageEnglish

SubjectChemistry / Analytic, Chemistry / Inorganic, Chemistry / General

Publication Year1996

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaScience

AuthorArthur E. Martell, Robert D. Hancock

SeriesModern Inorganic Chemistry Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight43 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN96-011162

Dewey Edition20

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal546.3

Table Of Content1 Introductory Overview.- 2 Factors Governing the Formation of Complexes with Unidentate Ligands in Aqueous Solution. Some General Considerations.- 3 Chelating Ligands.- 4 Complexes of Macrocycles and Other More Highly Preorganized Ligands.- 5 Medical Applications of Metal Complexes.- 6 The Selectivity of Ligands of Biological Interest for Metal Ions in Aqueous Solution. Some Implications for Biology.- 7 Stability Constants and Their Measurement.

SynopsisStability constants are fundamental to understanding the behavior of metal ions in aqueous solution. Such understanding is important in a wide variety of areas, such as metal ions in biology, biomedical applications, metal ions in the environment, extraction metallurgy, food chemistry, and metal ions in many industrial processes. In spite of this importance, it appears that many inorganic chemists have lost an appreciation for the importance of stability constants, and the thermodynamic aspects of complex formation, with attention focused over the last thirty years on newer areas, such as organometallic chemistry. This book is an attempt to show the richness of chemistry that can be revealed by stability constants, when measured as part of an overall strategy aimed at understanding the complexing properties of a particular ligand or metal ion. Thus, for example, there are numerous crystal structures of the Li+ ion with crown ethers. What do these indicate to us about the chemistry of Li+ with crown ethers? In fact, most of these crystal structures are in a sense misleading, in that the Li+ ion forms no complexes, or at best very weak complexes, with familiar crown ethers such as l2-crown-4, in any known solvent. Thus, without the stability constants, our understanding of the chemistry of a metal ion with any particular ligand must be regarded as incomplete. In this book we attempt to show how stability constants can reveal factors in ligand design which could not readily be deduced from any other physical technique.

LC Classification NumberQD71-142