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Martell, Arthur Earl was born on October 18, 1916 in Natick, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ambrose and Dorina (Lamoureaux) Martell.
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Stability 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.
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(Stability constants are fundamental to understanding the ...)
Stability 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.
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This book describes potentiometric methods for determining stability constants and explains how these constants can be used to describe metal ion speciation in complex environmental and biological systems. It also provides three original computer programs on a disk for calculating stability constants and for using stability constants to calculate concentrations of molecular species in solution. The author gives examples of calculations for simple metal chelates, for metal complexes of large organic molecules, and for mixtures containing several metal ions and complexing agents in aqueous solution. They also describe common errors in calculating stability constants and how to avoid them. This carefully revised second edition is now even more useful to the reader, and, in particular, to those who make use of the program disk. Each program has been revised to improve speed, control, and error trapping.
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Over the past twenty five years the Commission on Equilibrium Data of the Analytical Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has been sponsoring a noncritical compilation of metal complex formation constants and related equilibrium constants. This work was extensive in scope and resulted in publication of two large volumes of Stability Constants by the Chemical Society (London). The first volume, edited by L. G. Sillen (for inorganic ligands) and by A. E. Martell (for organic ligands), was published in 1964 and covered the literature through 1962. The second volume, subtitled Supplement No. 1, edited by L. G. Sillen and E. Hogfeldt (for inorganic ligands), and A. E. Martell and R. M. Smith (for organic ligands), was published in 1971 and covered the literature up to 1969. These two large compilations attempted to cover all papers in the field related to metal complex equilibria (heats, entropies, and free energies). Most recently a noncritical compilation of organic ligands by D. D. Perrin (Pergamon Press) extended coverage of the literature through 1973 and a similar volume for inorganic ligands by E. Hogfeldt covered through 1974. Since it was the policy of the Commission during that period to avoid decisions concerning the quality and reliability of the published work, th~ compilation would frequently contain from ten to twenty values for a single equilibrium constant.
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Martell, Arthur Earl was born on October 18, 1916 in Natick, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ambrose and Dorina (Lamoureaux) Martell.
Bachelor of Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1938; Honorary Doctor of Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, New York University 1941.
Instructor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1941-1942; member of faculty, Clark University, 1942-1961; professor of chemistry, Clark University, 1951-1961; department chairman, Clark University, 1959-1961; professor of chemistry, department chairman, Illinois Institute Technology, 1960-1966; professor of chemistry, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, since 1966; Distinguished professor, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., since 1973; department head, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., 1966-1980; advisory to president, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., 1980-1982. Research on chem equilibria, kinetics, catalysis, metal chelate compounds in solution.
(Over the past twenty five years the Commission on Equilib...)
(This book describes potentiometric methods for determinin...)
(Stability constants are fundamental to understanding the ...)
(Stability constants are fundamental to understanding the ...)
Member school board Northborough, Massachusetts, 1958-1961, chairman, 1959-1961. Fellow New York Academy of Sciences (honorary life). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society (chairman central Massachusetts section 1957-1958, chairman Texas Agricultural and Mechanical section 1990-1991, Southwest Regional award 1976, National award for Distinguished Service 1980, Patterson-Crane award 1995, Robert H. Goddard award 1998), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (honorary), Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon (honorary).
Married Norma June Saunders, September 2, 1944. Children: Stuart A., Edward S., Janet E., Judith S., Jon V., Elaine C. Married Mary Austin, 1965.
Children: Helen E., Kathryn A.