“…The stability constants of many NTA complexes have been determined and tabulated (Sillen & Martell, 1964). The crystal structures of the triprotic acid (Stanford, 1967), the monohydrated trisodium salt (Daly, 1967) and a variety of metal-NTA complexes (Barnett & Uchtman, 1979;Battaglia, Corradi & Tani, 1975;Butcher & Penfold, 1976;Fomenko, Kopaneva, Porai-Koshits & Polynova, 1974;Fomenko, Polynova & Porai-Koshits, 1975a, b;Hoard, Silverton & Silver-0108-7681/84/040377-05501.50 ton, 1968;Martin & Jacobsen, 1972;Whitlow, 1972Whitlow, , 1973Wieghardt, Quiltzsch, Weiss & Nuber, 1980) have been reported. The versatility of the NTA ion as a sequestering agent prompted our investigation of the title compounds.…”