Comprehensive Co-ordination Chemistry II : From Biology to Nanotechnology, Vol 1 & 2.

In these first two volumes of Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II authors have endeavored to lay down the fundamentals of coordination chemistry as it is understood in the early part of the twenty-first century. They have provided all the necessary fundamental background information needed to prosecute coordination chemistry in the physical and theoretical laboratory and to appreciate fully the information provided in the remaining volumes of this treatise. These volumes contain 112 contributions from some 130 outstanding, internationally known, contributors. They are subdivided into nine major sections whose content is described briefly below. The contributors were asked to emphasize developments in the field achieved since 1980 and since the publication of CCC (1987).

2. SYNTHESIS, PURI FICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF COORDINATION COMPOUNDS – including a detailed survey of aqua metal ions, the use of solvents, chromatographic methods, and crystal growth techniques.

3. REACTIONS OF COORDINATED LIGANDS – dealing with the chemistry of molecules such as oxygen, nitr ic and nitrous oxide, carbondioxide, oximes, and nitriles

4 STEREOCHEMISTRY, STRUCTURE, AND CRYSTAL ENGINEERING – structure and stereochemistry involving lone pair effects, outer sphere interactions, and hydrogen bonding.

5 NEW SYNTHETIC METHODS – nine contributions dealing with a wide range of newer methodologies from biphasic synthesis to sol–gel to genetic engineering.

6. PHYSICAL METHODS – a very extensive chapter incorporating 34 contributions detailing the enormous breadth of modern physical methods.

7. THEORETICAL MODELS,COMPUTAT IONAL METHODS,AND SIMULATION – 17 contributions illustrating the wealth of information that can be extracted from a range of computational methods from semi-empirical to ab initio,and from ligand field theory to metal–metal exchange coupling to topology,etc.

8. SOFTWARE – a brief glimpse of some of the packages which are currently available.

9. CASE STUDIES – putting it all together – eight studies which reveal how the many physical and theoretical techniques presented earlier in the volume can be used to solve specific problems.

It is obvious that the creation of these volumes has been an exciting, challenging, time-consuming, and all absorbing experience. The Editor hopes that it will also be a rewarding experience to the readership.

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