Gas chromatography has been applied for the first time for the determination of complex stability constants in inorganic fused-salt systems. Specific retention volumes, partition coefficients, and other thermodynamic data for the volatile solutes SbCI3, NbCl5, and TaCl5 in a series of alkali metal tetrachloroaluminate and tetrachloroferrate liquid phases show that complexes formed between the solute and solvent exhibit decreasing stability with change of liquid-phase alkali metal in the order potassium > thallium > sodium > lithium. Variations are due to differences in availability of complexing chloride ion resulting from the equilibrium 2AlCl4 ↔ Al2Cl7- + Cl-. Through measurements of the gas chromatographic partition coefficient of SbCl3 as a function of added excess alkali metal chloride in the tetrachloroaluminate and tetrachloroferrate liquid phases, the following equilibria have been established:[Formula-Ommited]. © 1969, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.