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Systematically covering the latest developments in the field, this is a comprehensive and handy introduction to metal-metal bonding. Each chapter follows a uniform, coherent structure for a clear overview, allowing easy access to the information, and opens with general remarks.

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Systematically covering all the latest developments in the field, this is a comprehensive and handy introduction to metal-metal bonding.
The chapters follow a uniform, coherent structure for a clear overview, allowing readers easy access to the information. The text covers such topics as synthesis, properties, structures, notable features, reactivity and examples of applications of the most important compounds in each group with metal-metal bonding throughout the periodic table.
With its general remarks at the beginning of each chapter, this is a must-have reference for all molecular inorganic chemists, including PhD students and postdocs, as well as more experienced researchers.

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PREFACE
FOREWORD
GENERAL SURVEY AND INTRODUCTION
History, genesis, general overview, general bonding considerations
S-BLOCK METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 1 homobimetallics, Group 2 homobimetallics, Group 2 heterobimetallics
GROUP 3, THE LANTHANIDES, AND ACTINIDE METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 3 heterobimetallics, Lanthanide heterobimetallics, Actinide heterobimetallics
GROUP 4 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 4 heterobimetallics
GROUP 5 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 5 homobimetallics, Group 5 heterobimetallics
GROUP 6 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 6 homobimetallics, Group 6 heterobimetallics
GROUP 7 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 7 homobimetallics, Group 7 heterobimetallics
GROUP 8 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 8 homobimetallics, Group 8 heterobimetallics
GROUP 9 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 9 homobimetallics, Group 9 heterobimetallics
GROUP 10 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 10 homobimetallics, Group 10 heterobimetallics
GROUP 11 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 11 homobimetallics, Group 11 heterobimetallics
GROUP 12 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 12 homobimetallics, Group 12 heterobimetallics
GROUP 13 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 13 homobimetallics, Group 13 heterobimetallics
GROUP 14 METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 14 homobimetallics, Group 14 heterobimetallics
GROUP METAL-METAL BONDS
Group 15 homobimetallics, Group 15 heterobimetallics
Index
Glossary

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Stephen Liddle obtained his BSc Hons (1997) and PhD (2000) from Newcastle University. After postdoctoral fellowships at Edinburgh, Newcastle, and Nottingham Universities he took up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at Nottingham (2007) and was promoted to Associate Professor and Reader (2010). He has been awarded an ERC Starting Investigators Grant (2009, uranium-metal bonds), the RSC Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship and Bill Newton awards (2011), and he was a co-recipient of the IChemE Petronas prize for education and training (2008). He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011. He is Chairman of COST Action CM1006 and was recently elected as a Vice President of the executive committee of the European Rare Earth and Actinide Society. He is a member of the Board of Editors for Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society and has published over 100 primary-research and review articles to date.

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