“…Metal-organic molecule interactions play a vital role in a number of chemical phenomena of interest, including mineral weathering, biologic acquisition of metals and their enzyme activity, environmental fate and toxicity, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, materials synthesis, and contaminant treatment (Karlin, 1993;Gawel et al, 1996;Buerge and Hug, 1998;Ferry and Glaze, 1998;Hudson, 1998;Neys et al, 1998;Alcacio et al, 2001;Penn et al, 2001;Chen and Hsieh, 2002). Of different organic ligands that occur in the environment, carboxylates constitute the dominant fraction.…”