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- Editors:
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John Avery
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Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jens Peder Dahl
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Department of Physical Chemistry, The Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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Aage E. Hansen
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Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Complexes
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- Vincent M. Miskowski, Harry B. Gray
Pages 1-16
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- Edward I. Solomon, Andrew A. Gewirth, Susan L. Cohen
Pages 27-68
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- P. Day, A. C. W. P. James, J. R. G. Thorne
Pages 85-93
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- Lise Christiansen, Hans Toftlund
Pages 177-185
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Reaction Rates
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- David J. Tannor, Stuart A. Rice
Pages 205-227
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- P. J. Møller, F. Grønlund
Pages 251-258
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Spectroscopy
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- Albert Moscowitz, Murray Brockman
Pages 259-260
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- J. A. Dagata, M. A. Scott, W. S. Felps, S. P. McGlynn
Pages 277-296
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About this book
"The Theory of Atomic Spectra", surrrrnanzlllg all that was then known about the quantum theory of free atoms; and in 1961, J.S. Griffith published "The Theory of Transition Metal Ions", in which he combined the ideas in Condon and Shortley's book with those of Bethe, Schlapp, Penney and Van Vleck. All this work, however, was done by physicists, and the results were reported in a way which was more accessable to physicists than to chemists. In the meantime, Carl J. Ballhausen had been studying quantum theory with W. Moffitt at Harvard; and in 1962 (almost simultaneously with Griffith) he published his extremely important book, "Introduction to Ligand Field Theory". This influential book was written from the standpoint of a chemist, and it became the standard work from which chemists learned the quantum theory of transition metal complexes. While it treated in detail the group theoretical aspects of crystal field theory, Carl J. Ballhausen's book also emphasized the limitations of the theory. As he pointed out, it is often not sufficient to treat the central metal ion as free (apart from the influence of the charges on the surrounding ligands): - In many cases hybridization of metal and ligand orbitals is significant. Thus, in general. a molecular orbital treatment is needed to describe transition metal complexes. However, much of the group theory developed In connection with crystal field theory can also be used in the molecular orbital treatment.
