Molecular metal-metal bonds : compounds, synthesis, properties / edited by Stephen T. Liddle.

Introduction and General Survey of Metal-Metal Bonds / John E McGrady -- s-Block Metal-Metal Bonds / Cameron Jones, Philip Mountford, Andreas Stasch, Matthew P Blake -- Group 3, Lanthanide, and Actinide Metal-Metal Bonds / Benjamin Oelkers, Rhett Kempe -- Group 4 Metal-Metal Bonds / Lutz H Gade -- Group 5 Metal-Metal Bonds / Sundargopal Ghosh, Dipak Kumar Roy -- Group 6 Metal-Metal Bonds / Malcolm H Chisholm, Nathan J Patmore -- Group 7 Metal-Metal Bonds / Frederic Poineau, Alfred P Sattelberger, Erli Lu, Stephen T Liddle -- Group 8 Metal-Metal Bonds / Stephen J Tereniak, Connie C Lu -- Group 9 Metal-Metal Bonds / Helen T Chifotides, Biswajit Saha, Nathan J Patmore, Kim R Dunbar, Jitendra K Bera -- Group 10 Metal-Metal Bonds / Erli Lu, Stephen T Liddle -- Group 11 Metal-Metal Bonds / Thomas G Gray, Joseph P Sadighi -- Group 12 Metal-Metal Bonds / Xian Wu, Sjoerd Harder -- Group 13 Metal-Metal Bonds / Joseph AB Abdalla, Simon Aldridge -- Group 14 Metal-Metal Bonds / Robert J Less, Dominic S Wright -- Group 15 Metal-Metal Bonds / James S Jones, Baofei Pan, François P Gabbaï.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (John Wiley, viewed April 21, 2015).

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.