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VARIOUS workers1 have remarked on the order of stability for metals with the same complexing agent. Thus, with salicylaldehyde in 50 per cent dioxan, the order is Pd > Cu > Ni > Pb > Co and Zn > Cd > Mg, and is the same for glycine and 8-hydroxy quinoline. A further list is Cu > Ni > Zn > Pb > Co > Mn > Mg > Ca > Sr > Ba based on considerations of glycine, alanine, glycyl-glycine and several carboxylic acids2.
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CHAPMAN, D. Electronegativity and the Stability of Metal Complexes. Nature 174, 887–888 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174887a0
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