[clarity]

Hi guys first time on these forums. Nice to meet all of you!

So I am working with chelants like EDTA and I've seen depictions of metal chelate structures like so:

https://figures.boundless-cdn.com/12142/large/metal-edta.png

So if I use H2Y2-, or H3Y-, what will the structure be like? Will the chelant lose the H ions to form the same complex structure? Or will the structure be different? Also, will the solution become more acidic as a result of the release of H ions?

If you guys have any recommendations of books/journal articles please feel free to let me know.

Thanks!

[AWK]

http://tarek.kakhia.org/books_eng/Organic_Acids_Chelating_Agents.Tarek_Kakhia.pdf

Contents of old monograph
Chelating Agents and Metal Chelates
Edited by:F. Dwyer
on: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123954992
search book in library.