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| Preface | |
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| Preface by Dante Gatteschi | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Symbols and useful constants | |
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| Magnetic units in the c.g.s. and SI systems | |
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| General considerations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Types of magnetic behaviour | |
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| Diamagnetism | |
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| Paramagnetism | |
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| Magnetic interactions | |
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| The origin of paramagnetism | |
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| Generalizations about the magnetic behaviour of transition metal complexes | |
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| Simplification of Van Vleck's equation | |
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| The magnitudes of magnetic moments | |
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| References | |
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| Free ions and crystal field theory | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Free ions | |
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| Interelectron repulsion and free ion terms | |
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| Spin-orbit coupling in free ions | |
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| Cubic crystal fields | |
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| The strength of crystal fields | |
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| The weak field approximation | |
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| Strong crystal fields | |
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| Intermediate strength crystal fields | |
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| Nephelauxetic and spectrochemical series | |
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| Spin-orbit coupling in crystal field terms | |
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| Wave-functions and energy levels in cubic and axially distorted cubic complexes | |
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| Cubic symmetry | |
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| Axially distorted cubic symmetries | |
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| References | |
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| Perturbation theory and its applications | |
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| Perturbation theory | |
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| The non-degenerate case | |
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| The degenerate case | |
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| Some remarks on the evaluation of matrix elements | |
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| Orders of perturbation: first and second order Zeeman effects | |
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| The relationship between g values from electron spin resonance and the wavefunctions of a system | |
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| Simultaneous perturbations | |
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| References | |
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| The magnetic properties of transition metal ions in cubic crystal fields | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The quenching of the orbital contribution to the magnetic susceptibility | |
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| The magnetic properties of transition metal ions in weak octahedral and tetrahedral crystal fields | |
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| The [superscript 2]T[subscript 2] term arising from a free ion [superscript 2]D term | |
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| The [superscript 5]T[subscript 2] term arising from a free ion [superscript 5]D term | |
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| The [superscript 3]T[subscript 1] term arising from a free ion [superscript 3]F term | |
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| The [superscript 4]T[subscript 1] term arising from a free ion [superscript 4]F term | |
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| A[subscript 2] terms arising from free ion F terms | |
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| E terms arising from free ion D terms | |
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| The [superscript 6]A[subscript 1] term arising from a free ion [superscript 6]S term | |
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| The magnetic properties of transition metal ions in medium and strong octahedral and tetrahedral crystal fields | |
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| Medium crystal field T[subscript 1] terms arising from free ion F terms | |
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| The calculation of the magnetic properties of transition metal ions with T ground terms from a consideration of t[superscript n subscript 2] e[superscript m] configurations | |
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| The magnetic properties of spin-paired transition metal complexes in cubic crystal fields | |
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| References | |
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| The magnetic properties of transition metal ions in axially symmetric crystal fields | |
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| The reduction of orbital angular momentum | |
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| The magnetic properties of T terms in axially symmetric crystal fields | |
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| The [superscript 2]T[subscript 2] term arising from a free ion [superscript 2]D term | |
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| The [superscript 3]T[subscript 1] term arising from a free ion [superscript 3]F term | |
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| The [superscript 5]T[subscript 2] term arising from a free ion [superscript 5]D term | |
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| The [superscript 4]T[subscript 1] term arising from a free ion [superscript 4]F term | |
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| The magnetic properties of A[subscript 2] and E terms in axially symmetric crystal fields | |
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| The [superscript 2]E[subscript g] term from the d[superscript 9] configuration in a tetragonally distorted octahedral environment | |
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| The [superscript 4]A[subscript 2g] term from the d[superscript 7] configuration in a tetragonally distorted tetrahedral environment | |
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| References | |
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| A comparison of experimental and calculated data | |
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| The d[superscript 9] configuration | |
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| The d[superscript 8] configuration | |
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| The d[superscript 7] configuration | |
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| The d[superscript 6] configuration | |
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| The d[superscript 2] configuration | |
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| The d[superscript 1] configuration | |
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| References | |
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| The magnetic properties of polynuclear transition metal complexes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Mechanisms of antiferromagnetic exchange interactions | |
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| Direct Interaction | |
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| Superexchange | |
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| Antiferromagnetism in polynuclear transition metal complexes | |
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| Binuclear complexes | |
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| Triangular trinuclear complexes | |
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| Linear trinuclear complexes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |