The stability constants of scandium complexes with malonate, maleate, itaconate, glutarate, adipate, and succinate ligands were determined titrimetrically at 25.0 °C and at an ionic strength of 0.1. The chelate effect was negligible for the stability of the scandium complexes with the dicarboxylate ligands studied in contrast with the lanthanoid complexes. The complex formation of scandium might be explained by an electrostatic ionic bond similar to ones exhibited in the lighter rare-earth complexes, due to linear relationships between the stability constants and the ionic potential Z2⁄r.

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