Ebook: Coordination Chemistry. A Century of Progress

Content: Theories of coordination compounds : Alfred Werner's triumph / George B. Kauffman --
While waiting for Werner : chemistry in chains / Levi Tansjö --
Werner's Beitrag, 1893 : a linguistic and epistemological analysis / Luigi Cerruti --
J.V. Dubský and his participation in Werner's coordination theory / František Jursík and George B. Kauffman --
Early structural coordination chemistry / Linus Pauling --
John C. Bailar, Jr. (1904-1991) : father of U.S. coordination chemistry / George B. Kauffman, Gregory S. Girolami, and Daryle H. Busch --
Kai Arne Jensen's contribution to coordination chemistry / Hans Toftlund --
Jannik Bjerrum (1909-1992) : his early years / Claus E. Schäffer --
Jannik Bjerrum's later life-turning toward chemical physics : personal recollections of a grateful student / Christian K. Jørgensen --
The contributions of David P. Mellor, Frank P. Dwyer, and Ronald S. Nyholm to coordination chemistry / Stanley E. Livingstone --
History of coordination chemistry in Japan during the period 1910 to the 1960s / Kazuo Yamasaki --
The compleat coordination chemistry : what a difference a century makes! / Daryle H. Busch --
Coordination chemistry of pigments and dyes of historical interest / Mary Virginia Orna, Adrienne W. Kozlowski, Andrea Baskinger, and Tara Adams --
The importance of non-bonds / Michael Laing --
Effective atomic number and valence-shell electron-pair repulsion : 60 years later / Michael Laing --
Brief history of the thermodynamics of complex equilibria in solution / Mihály T. Beck --
Stabilization of unstable d-metal oxidation states by complex formation / K.B. Yatsimirskii --
Oxidation states and dq configurations in inorganic chemistry : a historical and up-to-date account / Jesper Bendix, Michael Brorson, and Claus E. Schäffer --
Coordination based on known free ligands, moderate dissociation rate, weaker electron affinity of central atom than ionization energy of ligand, and quantum paradoxes / Christian K. Jørgensen --
The chelate, macrocyclic, and cryptate effects / Arthur E. Martell and Robert D. Hancock --
Linkage isomerism of thiocyanate bonded to cobalt(III) : from Alfred Werner to the present day / D.A. Buckingham --
Optical activity in coordination chemistry / Bodie Douglas --
Inorganic optical activity / R.D. Gillard --
Chirality in coordination compounds / Alex von Zelewsky, Pascal Hayoz, Xiao Hua, and Paul Haag --
Equilibrium shift mechanism for the Pfeiffer effect / Stanley Kirschner, Thaddeus Gish, and Ulysses Freeman, Jr. --
Mechanism of optical resolution of octahedral metal complexes / Hayami Yoneda and Katsuhiko Miyoshi --
Nontraditional ligands and their impact on coordination chemistry / Robert W. Parry --
Electron-deficient boranes as novel electron-donor ligands / Norman N. Greenwood --
Lanthanide aminopolycarboxylates / Gregory R. Choppin and Pamela J. Wong --
Hydrolysis behavior of the transuranium elements / Bernd Jung, Norman M. Edelstein, and Glenn T. Seaborg --
Solvent extraction of metals is coordination chemistry / Michael Laing --
Coordination chemistry in the solvent extraction of metals : developments from Russian laboratories / Yu. A. Zolotov --
Humic and hydrous oxide ligands in soil and natural water / metal-ion complexation / Cooper H. Langford --
Coordination model of metal-ion interactions with water hyacinth plants / Dean F. Martin --
Design of new chelating agents for removal of intracellular toxic metals / Mark M. Jones --
Coordination compounds of metal ions in sol-gel glasses / Renata Reisfeld and Christian K. Jørgensen --
Coordination compounds in new materials and in materials processing / Herbert D. Kaesz.