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| Preface | |
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| Preamble | |
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| The Central Atom | |
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| Key Concepts in Coordination Chemistry | |
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| A Who's Who of Metal Ions | |
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| Commoners and 'Uncommoners' | |
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| Redefining Commoners | |
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| Metals in Molecules | |
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| Metals in the Natural World | |
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| Metals in Contrived Environments | |
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| Natural or Made-to-Measure Complexes | |
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| The Road Ahead | |
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| Concept Keys | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Ligands | |
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| Membership: Being a Ligand | |
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| What Makes a Ligand? | |
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| Making Attachments-Coordintion | |
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| Putting the Bite on Metals-Chelation | |
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| Do I Look Big on That?-Chelate Ring Size | |
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| Different Tribes-Donor Group Variation | |
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| Ligands with More Bite-Denticity | |
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| Monodentate Ligands-The Simple Type | |
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| Basic Binders | |
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| Amines Ain't Ammines-Ligand Families | |
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| Meeting More Metals-Bridging Ligands | |
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| Greed is Good-Polydentate Ligands | |
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| The Simple Chelate | |
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| More Teeth, Stronger Bite-Polydentates | |
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| Many-Armed Monsters-Introducing Ligand Shape | |
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| Polynucleating Species-Molecular Bigamists | |
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| When One is Not Enough | |
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| Vive la Difference-Mixed-metal Complexation | |
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| Supersized- Binding to Macromolecules | |
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| A Separate Race-Organometallic Species | |
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| Concept Keys | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Complexes | |
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| The Central Metal Ion | |
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| Metal-Ligand Marriage | |
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| The Coordinate Bond | |
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| The Foundation of Coordination Chemistry | |
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| Complex Shape - Not Just Any Which Way | |
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| Holding On - The Nature of Bonding in Metal Complexes | |
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| An Ionic Bonding Model - Introducing Crystal Field Theory | |
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| A Covalent Bonding Model - Embracing Molecular Orbital Theory | |
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| Ligand Field Theory - Making Compromises | |
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| Bonding Models Extended | |
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| Coupling - Polymetallic Complexes | |
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| Making Choices | |
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| Selectivity - Of all the Molecules in all the World, Why This One? | |
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| Preferences - Do You Like What I Like? | |
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| Complex Lifetimes - Together, Forever? | |
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| Complexation Consequences | |
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| Concept Keys | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Shape | |
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| Getting in Shape | |
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| Forms of Complex Life - Coordination Number and Shape | |
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| One Coordination (ML) | |
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| Two Coordination (ML<sub>2</sub>) | |
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| Three Coordination (ML<sub>3</sub>) | |
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| Four Coordination (ML<sub>4</sub>) | |
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| Five Coordination (ML<sub>5</sub>) | |
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| Six Coordination (ML<sub>6</sub>) | |
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| Higher Coordination Numbers (ML<sub>7</sub> to ML<sub>9</sub>) | |
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| Influencing Shape | |
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| Metallic Genetics - Metal Ion Influences | |
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| Moulding a Relationship - Ligand Influences | |
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| Chameleon Complexes | |
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| Isomerism - Real 3D Effects | |
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| Introducing Stereoisomers | |
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| Constitutional (Structural) Isomerism | |
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| Stereoisomerism: in Place -Positional Isomers; in Space - Optical Isomers | |
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| What's Best? - Isomer Preferences | |
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| Sophisticated Shapes | |
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| Compounds of Polydentate Ligands | |
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| Encapsulation Compounds | |
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| Host-Guest Molecular Assemblies | |
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| Defining Shape | |
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| Concept Keys | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Stability | |
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| The Makings of a Stable Relationship | |
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| Bedded Down-Thermodynamic Stability | |
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| Factors Influencing Stability of Metal Complexes | |
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| Overall Stability Constants | |
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| Undergoing Change - Kinetic Stability | |
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| Complexation - Will It Last? | |
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| Thermodynamic and Kinetic Stability | |
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| Kinetic Rate Constants | |
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| Lability and Inertness in Octahedral Complexes | |
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| Reactions | |
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| A New Partner-Substitution | |
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| A New Body-Stereochemical Change | |
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| A New Face - Oxidation-Reduction | |
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| A New Suit - Ligand-centred Reactions | |
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| Concept Keys | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Molecular Creation - Ways to Make Complexes | |
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| Core Metal Chemistry - Periodic Table Influences | |
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| s Block: Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metals | |
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| p Block: Main Group Metals | |
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| d Block: Transition Metals | |
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| f Block: Inner Transition Metals (Lanthanoids and Actinoids) | |
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| Beyond Natural Elements | |
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| Reactions Involving the Coordination Shell | |
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| Ligand Substitution Reactions in Aqueous Solution | |
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| Substitution Reactions in Nonaqueous Solvents | |
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| Substitution Reactions without using a Solvent | |
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| Chiral Complexes | |
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| Catalysed Reactions | |
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| Reactions Involving the Metal Oxidation State | |
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| Reactions Involving Coordinated Ligands | |
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| Metal-directed Reactions | |
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| Reactions of Coordinated Ligands | |
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| Organometallic Synthesis | |
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| Concept Keys | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Properties | |
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| Finding Ways to Make Complexes Talk - Investigative Methods | |
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| Getting Physical - Methods and Outcomes | |
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| Probing the Life of Complexes - Using Physical Methods | |
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| Peak Performance Illustrating Selected Physical Methods | |
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| Pretty in Red? - Colour and the Spectrochemical Series | |
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| A Magnetic Personality? - Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism | |
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| Ligand Field Stabilization | |
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| Concept Keys | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| A Complex Life | |
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| Life's a Metal Ion | |
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| Biological Ligands | |
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| Metal Ions in Biology | |
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| Classes of Metallobiomolecules | |
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| Metalloproteins and Metalloenzymes | |
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| Iron-containing Biomolecules | |
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| Copper-containing Biomolecules | |
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| Zinc-containing Biomolecules | |
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| Other Metal-containing Biomolecules | |
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| Mixed-Metal Proteins | |
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| Doing What Comes Unnaturally - Synthetic Biomolecules | |
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| A Laboratory-free Approach - In Silico Prediction | |
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| Concept Keys | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Complexes and Commerce | |
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| Kill or Cure? - Complexes as Drugs | |
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| Introducing Metallodrugs | |
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| Anticancer Drugs | |
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| Other Metallodrugs | |
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| How Much? - Analysing with Complexes | |
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| Fluoroimmunoassay | |
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| Fluoroionophores | |
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| Profiting from Complexation | |
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| Metal Extraction | |
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| Industrial Roles for Ligands and Coordination Complexes | |
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| Being Green | |
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| Complexation in Remediation | |
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| Better Ways to Synthesize Fine Organic Chemicals | |
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| Complex Futures | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Crystal Ball Gazing | |
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| Concept Keys | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Nomenclature | |
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| Molecular Symmetry: The Point Group | |
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| Index | |