BASIS OF THE VOLTAMMETRIC ANALYSIS OF LABILE METAL-HOMOFUNCTIONAL MACROMOLECULE COMPLEXATION

Systems containing metal ions which bind to macromolecular ligands usu ally contain a large number of chemical species with different numbers of metal ions bound to each macromolecule. Nevertheless, the formulat ion of macromolecular complexation in the voltammetric studies of such systems usually starts by considering the presence of only three form al species M, ML and L. The conditions under which the mathematical fo rmulation of complexation, transport and adsorption processes for the real species reduces to the formulation of the same processes in a sys tem with only the formal species are analyzed.