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The Preparation And Determination Of Some Of The Properties Of The Dicarboxylic Amino Acid Chelates Of Platinum(Ii) And Palladium(Ii), Gordon Harold Williams

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It is surprising that no one has considered that coordination might have some effect on the strength of the acid group. It is the intent of this study to fill this gap in the knowledge of amino-acid chemistry.

At about the time this study began on the effect of chelation on the strength of the uncomplexed acid group, the next two higher homologs of these dicarboxylic amino acids became commercially available. It was, therefore, decided that the problem of this research should be expanded to include all four of the acidic amino acids.

The research problem was also defined to …