616Nickel(II) compounds (chlorides, sulfates, phos phates, formates, and so on) find wide use in various fields of industry as tanning extracts, nickel plating electrolytes, phosphate etching materials, and so on. 2 Hydroxyethyliminodiacetic acid, which forms com plexes with many metals, is used as an effective com plexing agent. The ability of this compound to form metal ion complexes of various composition, charge, and stability and its high water solubility served as pre requisites for the use of this chelating agent as an effec tive eluent in the separation of lanthanides [1][2][3][4].Dicarboxylic acids are used in various fields of industry including the production of varnishes and paints, synthetic fibers, and food products, while dicarboxylic acid amides (dipeptides) coordinated to micronutrient metals are known as biologically active medicinal agents [5].Nickel is also a biologically active metal. The excessive "technology induced" nickel(II) com pounds that get into the body are toxic for the metab olism and carcinogenic for cells [6].Recent years have seen advantageous development of studies into metal coordination compounds con taining chelating agents. The formation of chelates in the presence of additional ligands often markedly enhances their functional activity, which may be caused by electron density redistribution, increase in the stability of the complex species, increase in the reactivity, formation of new structural entities, etc.; this considerably extends the scope of their applica tion.Thus, it appears pertinent to study the quantitative characteristics of the reactions of nickel(II) with 2 hydroxyethyliminodiacetic acid (H 2 Heida) in the presence of saturated dicarboxylic acids (oxalic (H 2 Ox), malonic (H 2 Mal), and succinic (H 2 Suc) acids), as this would open up the way for developing complexing compositions with a pre specified set of properties. The complexes of 2 hydroxyethyliminodiacetic acid with nickel(II) were studied repeatedly by various methods. A potentiometric study at I = 0.1 and T = 20 [7], 25 [8, 9], and 30°С [10] showed the presence of [NiHeida] (logβ = 9.28 [7], 9.15 [8], 9.33 [9], 9.50 [10]) and [NiHeida 2 ] 2-complexes (logβ = 14.25 [7], 14.18 [9], 14.65 [10]). According to spectrophotome try at I = 0.1 (NaClO 4 ) and T = 20°С, the [NiHeida] (logβ = 9.52) and [NiHeida 2 ] 2-(logβ = 13.90) com plexes exist [11].Nickel(II) complexes with dicarboxylic acids have also been repeatedly studied but the results are quite contradictory as regards both the composition and the stability constants of the complexes. To our knowl edge, no data on different ligand nickel(II) complexes with H 2 Heida and dicarboxylic acids are present in the literature.For understanding of the complexation processes in ternary systems, knowledge of the processes that occur in the corresponding binary systems is needed. Since the published data on the Ni(II) complexes con taining one sort of the ligands are contradictory, we studied in detail the complexation in binary systems under identical experi...