ZHIGANG CHEN, NICOLE MOREL-DESROSERS, JEAN-PIERRE MOREL; and CHRISTIAN DETELLIER Can. J. Chem. 72, 1753Chem. 72, (1994. The interactions of the La(II1) cation with D-ribose and with D-arabinose in aqueous solution were investigated by 1 3 9~a NMR spectroscopy. In the case of D-ribose, the formation of a La(II1)-sugar complex was indicated by variations of the ' 3 9~a chemical shift and linewidth with an increase of the sugar concentration in solution. In contrast, the complexation of La(II1) by arabinose is very weak and almost undetectable by "' La NMR. On the basis of a 1:l stoichiometry, the stability constant for the complex of La (II1)