Stability Constants

Part 1 Introduction: stability constants - early work; recent developments; historical evolution of computational methods; purpose of this book. Part 2 Equilibrium constants, protonation constants, formation constants: concentration constants and activity constants; conventions employment for expressing equilibrium constants; equilibrium constants and stability constants for EDTA; species distribution curves. Part 3 Experimental methods for measuring equilibrium constants: methods available; potentiometric pH measurements; displacement methods; pH and p[H]measurement of metal complex equilibria: materials, the reaction mixture; calibration of the potentiometric apparatus; the experimental runs; computation of stability constants.Part 4 Common errors and their elimination or minimization: measurements errors; calibration and electrode care; reagents; equilibrium measurements; calculations; selection of the model. Part 5 Examples of stability constant determination: iminodiacetic acid (IDA); procedure for IDA; C-BISTREN; procedure for C-BISTREN. Part 6 Macroscopic and microscopic constants: some definitions and concepts; ionization of tyrosine; microscopic protonation equilibria of DOPA; general comments and conclusions. Determination of stability constants and species concentrations of complex systems: a mixed-ligand binuclear dioxygen system; non-aqueous solvents; complex multicomponent systems; equilibrium with solid phases; equilibrium involving hydrolytic species; species distributions of hydroxo and fluoro complexes of AI(III). Part 7 Critical stability constants and their selection: general criteria; examples of critical data selection; need for additional critical constants. Part 8 Development of a complete metal complex data base: introduction; linear stability. constant correlations; estimation of estability constants not measured experimentally; metal speciation in sea water with and without added ligands.