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Structure and bonding
477 Structure and Bonding, edited by J. D. DUNITZ et al., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1973: Vol. 14, pp. 171, price 820.80; Vol. 15, pp. 188, price $23.00; Vol. 16, pp. 189, price S23.00.
This series of clear and concise texts presents accounts of research in various fields of structure and bonding. Volume 14 comprises six papers (two in German) dealingwith recent work in Inorganic Chemistry. Volume 15 consists of five papers under the genera1 heading Coordinative Interactions. The four papers in Volume 16 concern recent work on alkali metal complexex with organic ligands. As an aid to profitable further reading, a comprehensive list of references is included at the end of each account and each volume contains an index to articles which have appeared in earlier volumes. The high standard of this series is well maintained in these volumes. In particular the judicious mixture of experimental and theoretical work presented retains the reader’s interest throughout. Outstanding contributions are made by B. J. Hathaway (Tile ecidencefor “out-of-plane” bonding in axial complexes), C. E. SchaEer (TAe angular-ozyerlap model of the ligandfield. Relation to the crystal field model), R. S_ Drago (Acceptor interactions), V. Guttman (Redox properties), and by M. R. .Truter (Strrzctrues of organic complexes with alkali metal ions)_ Volume 15 starts in a melancholy fashion with a short obituary notice tc Professor Sir Ronald Nyholm. As one of the founder editors he was able to influence the scope and character of this series. This ensured an excellent start which gained for StrzrctrtreafzdBonding a high reputation from the inception of the first volume. W.J.O.-T.
Magnetism and Transition Meral Complexes, by F. E. MABBSand D. J. MACHIN, Chapman and Hall, .London, 1973, pp. xviii + 206, price L3.60. This book wiil fil1 a long-standing gap on the bookshelves of many coordination chemists. Although chemists make use of the magnetic properties of complexes in the course of their research, not all of them have an adequate grasp of the fundamentals of the subject of an awareness of the limitations of the results they obtain. Most previous accounts of the magnetic properties of metal complexes have been either too elementary to be of real value or have assumed a background knowledge which is ail too often absent. The approach adopted by the authors of this book overcomes this by introducing all the crystal field and perturbation theory necessary for an.introduction to the subject by means of detailed examples which can be readily understood by the average chemist. The book is not a com-
This series of clear and concise texts presents accounts of research in various fields of structure and bonding. Volume 14 comprises six papers (two in German) dealingwith recent work in Inorganic Chemistry. Volume 15 consists of five papers under the genera1 heading Coordinative Interactions. The four papers in Volume 16 concern recent work on alkali metal complexex with organic ligands. As an aid to profitable further reading, a comprehensive list of references is included at the end of each account and each volume contains an index to articles which have appeared in earlier volumes. The high standard of this series is well maintained in these volumes. In particular the judicious mixture of experimental and theoretical work presented retains the reader’s interest throughout. Outstanding contributions are made by B. J. Hathaway (Tile ecidencefor “out-of-plane” bonding in axial complexes), C. E. SchaEer (TAe angular-ozyerlap model of the ligandfield. Relation to the crystal field model), R. S_ Drago (Acceptor interactions), V. Guttman (Redox properties), and by M. R. .Truter (Strrzctrues of organic complexes with alkali metal ions)_ Volume 15 starts in a melancholy fashion with a short obituary notice tc Professor Sir Ronald Nyholm. As one of the founder editors he was able to influence the scope and character of this series. This ensured an excellent start which gained for StrzrctrtreafzdBonding a high reputation from the inception of the first volume. W.J.O.-T.
Magnetism and Transition Meral Complexes, by F. E. MABBSand D. J. MACHIN, Chapman and Hall, .London, 1973, pp. xviii + 206, price L3.60. This book wiil fil1 a long-standing gap on the bookshelves of many coordination chemists. Although chemists make use of the magnetic properties of complexes in the course of their research, not all of them have an adequate grasp of the fundamentals of the subject of an awareness of the limitations of the results they obtain. Most previous accounts of the magnetic properties of metal complexes have been either too elementary to be of real value or have assumed a background knowledge which is ail too often absent. The approach adopted by the authors of this book overcomes this by introducing all the crystal field and perturbation theory necessary for an.introduction to the subject by means of detailed examples which can be readily understood by the average chemist. The book is not a com-