Complexes of doubly chelating ligands. Part II. Further computations on the polymer system involving copper(<scp>II</scp>) ions and<scp>L</scp>-β-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)alanine (DOPA)

Abstract

A more detailed study of the data on copper(II) complexes of L-β-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl) alanine DOPA (see Part I) has been carried out by use of computer programs of data-generating type. These have been used to match experimental results with theoretical models by curve-fitting techniques and have led to the conclusion that the open-chain polymers form a set including some of considerable length, whereas the only ring-polymer is the cyclic dimer.