Stabilité des carboxylates de terres rares, IV N‐acétylglycinates

The stability constants of N‐acetylgycinates of some rare earths in aqueous solution have been determined by a potentiometric method, and by a solvent extraction technique. The ligand forms 1:1 complexes which are stabilized by relatively large positive entropies of formation, the corresponding enthalpies being endothermic. This backs up the assumption that a conjugate base of an amino acid forms innersphere complexes and acts as a unidentate ligand towards a rare earth cation, like a simple carboxylate.