“…= 1.934 (8)]k]. These distances are slightly shorter than those seen for comparable bonds in the six-coordinate H3dtpa 2- (Seccombe, Lee & Henry, 1975), nta 3- (Whitlow, 1973;Fomenko, Kopaneva, Porai-Koshits & Polynova, 1974), ida 2- (Podder, Dattagupta, Saha & Saenger, 1979), and oda 2- (Whitlow & Davey, 1975) Relationship of solid-state structure to solution structure. The relative ease of protonation of metal chelates has been used as an indication of whether ligand amine N atoms are bound (Kula, Sawyer, Chan & Finley, 1963).…”