Rare earth elements have been widely used in many areas. Rare earth complex bearing an amino acid was synthesized to study the influence and the long term effect of rare earth elements on environment and human beings, because amino acid is the basic unit of the living things. Previous work on these kinds of complex is focused on synthesis and characterization of them. But their thermodynamic data have seldom been reported. Here we present the thermodynamic study of [Ho(H 2O) 5]Cl 3. The heat capacity of Holmium complex with threonine, [Ho(Thr)(H 2O) 5]Cl 3 , was measured with an automatic adiabatic calorimeter in the temperature range from 79 K to 330 K and no thermal anomaly was found in this range. Thermodynamic functions relative to standard state 298 15 K were derived from the heat capacity data. Thermal decomposition behavior of the complex in nitrogen atmosphere in the range from 300 K to 900 K was studied by thermogravimetric (TG) technique and a possible decomposition mechanism was proposed according to the TG DTG results. Rare earth elements have been widely used in many areas. Rare earth complex bearing an amino acid was synthesized to study the influence and the long term effect of rare earth elements on environment and human beings, because amino acid is the basic unit of the living things Previous work on these kinds of complexes is focused on synthesis and characterization of them. But their thermodynamic data have seldom been reported. Here we present the thermodynamic study of [Ho (H 2O) 5] Cl 3. The heat capacity of Holmium complex with threonine, [Ho (Thr) (H 2 O) 5] Cl 3, was measured with an automatic adiabatic calorimeter in the temperature range from 79 K to 330 K and no thermal anomaly was found in this range. 298 15 K were derived from the heat capacity data. Thermal decomposition behavior of the complex in nitrogen atmosphere in the range from 300 K to 900 K was studied by thermogravimetric (TG) technique and a possible decompositio n mechanism was proposed according to the TG DTG results.