Coordination Chemistry

This book provides the fundamentals of coordination chemistry and guidelines for independently conducting syntheses of metal complexes at various levels of difficulty. The practical application of complex chemical concepts reveals to students the usefulness of coordination chemistry and encourages further study. Emphasis has been placed on the clarity of the content rather than on in-depth discussions of the theoretical framework of coordination chemistry.

The content includes:

• Fundamentals: History, definitions and nomenclature, isomerism of coordination compounds, bonding, stability, reaction mechanisms, and reactivity
• Syntheses: Methodology - syntheses of coordination compounds
• Applications: Metal complexes in human medicine, in biosystems, and for future technologies, metal complexes and ligands in hydrometallurgy, catalysis.