Molecular Orbitals of Transition Metal Complexes

• Covers the most elementary ideas of molecular orbital theory.
• Provides a theoretical method of analysis based on simple notions.
• Method can be applied to problems of varying complexity in inorganic and organometallic chemistry.
• Written in very pedagogical manner.
• Exercises and their solutions included for each of the chapters.

Readership: Final-year undergraduate and beginning graduates in solid state physics, chemistry, and crystallography.

Yves Jean, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

"...this book is a very good supplement to the author's previous textbook on the orbitals of organic molecules. It will easily reach the pedagogical aim of giving the student a theoretical method of analysis that relies on some simple ideas. Angewandte Chemie, 2005, 117, 7325-7326."

1: Setting the scene
2: Principal ligands fields: sigma interactions
3: Pi-type interactions
4: Applications
5: The isolobal analogy
6: Elements of group theory and applications