The Chemical Bond I

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. The Chemical Bond: Lewis and Kossel’s Landmark Contribution

   • D. Michael P. Mingos

   Pages 1-56

3. Charge Density and Chemical Bonding

   • Dietmar Stalke

   Pages 57-88

4. Lewis Description of Bonding in Transition Metal Complexes

   • Fu Kit Sheong, Wen-Jie Chen, Zhenyang Lin

   Pages 89-129

5. Gilbert Lewis and the Model of Dative Bonding

   • Gernot Frenking, Markus Hermann

   Pages 131-156

6. Structure and Bonding Patterns in Large Molecular Ligated Metal Clusters

   • Jean-Yves Saillard, Jean-François Halet

   Pages 157-179

7. Electronic Properties of Endohedral Clusters of Group 14

   • Vaida Arcisauskaite, Xiao Jin, José M. Goicoechea, John E. McGrady

   Pages 181-197

8. The Rich Structural Chemistry Displayed by the Carbon Monoxide as a Ligand to Metal Complexes

   • Shengda Ding, Michael B. Hall

   Pages 199-248

9. Back Matter

   Pages 249-252

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The series Structure and Bonding publishes critical reviews on topics of research concerned with chemical structure and bonding. The scope of the series spans the entire Periodic Table and addresses structure and bonding issues associated with all of the elements. It also focuses attention on new and developing areas of modern structural and theoretical chemistry such as nanostructures, molecular electronics, designed molecular solids, surfaces, metal clusters and supramolecular structures. Physical and spectroscopic techniques used to determine, examine and model structures fall within the purview of Structure and Bonding to the extent that the focus is on the scientific results obtained and not on specialist information concerning the techniques themselves. Issues associated with the development of bonding models and generalizations that illuminate the reactivity pathways and rates of chemical processes are also relevant.
The individual volumes in the series are thematic. The goal of each volume is to give the reader, whether at a university or in industry, a comprehensive overview of an area where new insights are emerging that are of interest to a larger scientific audience. Thus each review within the volume critically surveys one aspect of that topic and places it within the context of the volume as a whole. The most significant developments of the last 5 to 10 years should be presented using selected examples to illustrate the principles discussed. A description of the physical basis of the experimental techniques that have been used to provide the primary data may also be appropriate, if it has not been covered in detail elsewhere. The coverage need not be exhaustive in data, but should rather be conceptual, concentrating on the new principles being developed that will allow the reader, who is not a specialist in the area covered, to understand the data presented. Discussion of possible future research directions in the area is welcomed.
Review articles for the individual volumes are invited by the volume editors

• 2c-2e Bonding Model
• ELF Topology
• Hypercoordinate Molecules
• Hypervalent Molecules
• Kossel Bonding
• Langmuir Bond Model
• Lewis Bonding
• RLF Topological Approach
• Transition Metal Complexes
• Valence Bond Model

• Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  D. Michael P. Mingos

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