Coordination Chemistry

Introduction by Joseph Chatt ; Theories of Coordination Compounds: Alfred Werner's Triumph ; While Waiting for Werner: Chemistry in Chains ; Werner's Beitrag, 1893: A Linguistic and Epistemological Analysis ; J.V. Dubsky and His Participation in Werner's Coordination Theory ; Early Structural Coordination Chemistry ; John C. Bailar, Jr. (1904-1991): Father of U.S. Coordination Chemistry ; Kai Arne Jensen's Contribution to Coordination Chemistry ; Jannik Bjerrum (1909-1992): His Early Years ; Jannik Bjerrum's Later Life-Turning Toward Chemical Physics: Personal Recollections of a Grateful Student ; The Contributions of David P. Mellor, Frank P. Dwyer, and Ronald S. Nyholm to Coordination Chemistry ; History of Coordination Chemistry in Japan During the Period 1910 to the 1960s ; The Compleat Coordination Chemistry: What a Difference A Century Makes ; Coordination Chemistry of Pigments and Dyes of Historical Interest ; The Importance of Non-Bonds ; Effective Atomic Number and Valence-Shell Electron-Pair Repulsion: 60 Years Later ; Brief History of the Thermodynamics of Complex Equilibria in Solution ; Stabilization of Unstable d-Metal Oxidation States by Complex Formation ; Oxidation States and d]q Configurations in Inorganic Chemistry: A Historical and Up-to-Date Account ; Coordination Based on Known Free Ligands, Moderate Dissociation Rate, Weaker Electron Affinity of Central Atom Than Ionization Energy of Ligand, and Quantum Paradoxes ; The Chelate, Macrocyclic, and Cryptate Effects ; Linkage Isomerism of Thiocyanate Bonded to Cobalt(III): From Alfred Werner to the Present Day ; Optical Activity in Coordination Chemistry ; Inorganic Optical Activity ; Chirality in Coordination Compounds ; Equilibrium Shift Mechanism for the Pfeiffer Effect ; Mechanism of Optical Resolution of Octahedral Metal Complexes ; Nontraditional Ligands and Their Impact on Coordination Chemistry ; Electron-Deficient Boranes as Novel Electron-Donor Ligands ; Lanthanide Aminopolycarboxylates ; Hydrolysis Behavior of the Transuranium Elements ; Solvent Extraction of Metals Is Coordination Chemistry ; Coordination Chemistry in the Solvent Extraction of Metals: Developments from Russian Laboratories ; Humic and Hydrous Oxide Ligands in Soil and Natural Water Metal-Ion Complexation ; Coordination Model of Metal-Ion Interaction with Water Hyacinth Plants ; Design of New Chelating Agents For Removal of Intracellular Toxic Metals ; Coordination Compounds of Metal Ions in Sol-Gel Glasses ; Coordination Compounds in New Materials and in Materials Processing