Determination of Coordination Configuration of Rare Earth Ions with Aminoacids in Solutions with Cooperative Vibronic Spectroscopy

The use of cooperative vibronic spectroscopy to measure coordination numbers of the ligands surrounding rare earth ions in solutions was proposed and demonstrated. It is shown that the time-resolved cooperative vibronic spectroscopy is a very useful technique for the determination of the ligand type and ligand number for different coordination groups. Coordination configuration of arginine with Tb3+ in solutions with different pH values was studied. It demonstrates that the carboxy1 of arginine can replace H2O to coordinate with Tb3+ and the coordination number of carboxyl increases with the increase of pH value of the solutions.