Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. Chemical Aims in Ligand-Field Studies: 1. Decline and recovery; Part II. Magnetism: 2. Electric and magnetic fields; 3. The interaction of magnetic fields and matter; 4. The susceptibility tensor; 5. Experimental arrangements; 6. The measurement of crystal susceptibilities; 7. Quantum theory and magnetic susceptibilities; Part III. Ligand-Field Theory; 8. Tensor-operator theory; 9. The ligand field; 10. Techniques for parametric models; 11. The nature of ligand-field theory and of the angular overlap model; Part IV. The synthesis; 12. Ligand-field analyses.

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In this book, a synthesis of old and new notions straddling the disciplines of physics and chemistry is described.