“…A number of sets of low temperature complexation constants for the monomeric PdCl r (H 2 O) 4-r 2-r species (r ϭ [0,4]) have already been proposed, mainly from potentiometric, solubility, and spectrophotometric studies (Sundaram and Sandell, 1955;Droll et al, 1957;Schukarev et al, 1961;Jørgensen, 1962;Burger and Dyrssen, 1963;Grinberg et al, 1963;Biryukov and Shlenskaya, 1964a;Biryukov and Shlenskaya, 1964b;Burger, 1964a;Burger, 1964b;Shlenskaya and Biryukov, 1964;Weed, 1964;Fasman et al, 1965;Levanda, 1968;Gel'fman and Kiseleva, 1969;Rittner et al, 1970;Kravtsov and Martynova, 1971;Elding, 1972b;Gulko and Schmuckler, 1973;Hsu et al, 1991;Tait et al, 1991;van Middlesworth and Wood, 1999). Spectrophotometric studies have, however, provided the most insight into palladium chloride complexation (e.g., Elding 1972a;Elding 1972b;Elding, 1973;Elding, 1975), given the possibility of detecting and quantifying the presence of different complexes by virtue of their different ligand-to-metal charge transfer spectra (Sundaram and Sandell, 1955;Droll et al, 1957;Schukarev et al, 1961;Jörgensen, 1962;Burger and Dyrssen, 1963;Biryukov and Shlenskaya, 1964a;Biryukov and Shlenskaya, 1964b;Burger, 1964a;Shlenskaya and Biryukov, 1964;Levanda, 1968;…”