A new series of hydroxy bridged Chromium (III) complexes of glutamic acid has been prepared, in addition to the previously prepared Iris glutamic acid and tris cobalt (III) glycine com­plexes. For the hydroxy bridged complexes, a number of hydration isomers of different colours were also isolated. These compounds were characterized by using Infrared, U. V-Visible spectra and mag­netic moment determinations. Infrared criteria have been adduced from a critical study of the Infrared spectra of fac Cr(L-gly)3H20 and [Cr(L-gly)20H] 1/2H20 and applied to these L- glutamic acid complexes. These L-glutamic acid complexes with the exception of Cr(L-glu)3. 2H20 are dihydroxy bridged. L-glutamic acid is coordinated through the "Y-COOH group in the case of the tris complexes, and through the cr-COOH group in the case of the hydrol\Y bridgea complexes.


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