Automatic classification of chemical behaviour by sequential hypothesization and multiparametric curve-fitting-III Fully computerized elucidation of polarographic data on stepwise complex formation.

A fully automatic procedure, based on the polarographic technique of DeFord and Hume, is described for deducing the formula of the highest complex formed in the reaction of a metal ion with a ligand and for evaluating the successive overall formation constants. Its results are indistinguishable from those of careful graphical analysis in the traditional fashion.