- ISBN: 9780486462844 | 0486462846
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/11/2008
| Preface | p. ix |
| Preface by Dante Gatteschi | p. xi |
| Preface to the First Edition | p. xiii |
| Symbols and useful constants | p. xvii |
| Magnetic units in the c.g.s. and SI systems | p. xxi |
| General considerations | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Definitions | p. 2 |
| Types of magnetic behaviour | p. 4 |
| Diamagnetism | p. 4 |
| Paramagnetism | p. 6 |
| Magnetic interactions | p. 8 |
| The origin of paramagnetism | p. 10 |
| Generalizations about the magnetic behaviour of transition metal complexes | p. 12 |
| Simplification of Van Vleck's equation | p. 12 |
| The magnitudes of magnetic moments | p. 16 |
| References | p. 23 |
| Free ions and crystal field theory | p. 24 |
| Introduction | p. 24 |
| Free ions | p. 25 |
| Interelectron repulsion and free ion terms | p. 25 |
| Spin-orbit coupling in free ions | p. 28 |
| Cubic crystal fields | p. 31 |
| The strength of crystal fields | p. 31 |
| The weak field approximation | p. 32 |
| Strong crystal fields | p. 34 |
| Intermediate strength crystal fields | p. 39 |
| Nephelauxetic and spectrochemical series | p. 39 |
| Spin-orbit coupling in crystal field terms | p. 40 |
| Wave-functions and energy levels in cubic and axially distorted cubic complexes | p. 40 |
| Cubic symmetry | p. 41 |
| Axially distorted cubic symmetries | p. 43 |
| References | p. 46 |
| Perturbation theory and its applications | p. 47 |
| Perturbation theory | p. 47 |
| The non-degenerate case | p. 49 |
| The degenerate case | p. 51 |
| Some remarks on the evaluation of matrix elements | p. 54 |
| Orders of perturbation: first and second order Zeeman effects | p. 57 |
| The relationship between g values from electron spin resonance and the wavefunctions of a system | p. 58 |
| Simultaneous perturbations | p. 60 |
| References | p. 62 |
| The magnetic properties of transition metal ions in cubic crystal fields | p. 63 |
| Introduction | p. 63 |
| The quenching of the orbital contribution to the magnetic susceptibility | p. 63 |
| The magnetic properties of transition metal ions in weak octahedral and tetrahedral crystal fields | p. 67 |
| The [superscript 2]T[subscript 2] term arising from a free ion [superscript 2]D term | p. 68 |
| The [superscript 5]T[subscript 2] term arising from a free ion [superscript 5]D term | p. 82 |
| The [superscript 3]T[subscript 1] term arising from a free ion [superscript 3]F term | p. 84 |
| The [superscript 4]T[subscript 1] term arising from a free ion [superscript 4]F term | p. 87 |
| A[subscript 2] terms arising from free ion F terms | p. 89 |
| E terms arising from free ion D terms | p. 94 |
| The [superscript 6]A[subscript 1] term arising from a free ion [superscript 6]S term | p. 96 |
| The magnetic properties of transition metal ions in medium and strong octahedral and tetrahedral crystal fields | p. 97 |
| Medium crystal field T[subscript 1] terms arising from free ion F terms | p. 97 |
| The calculation of the magnetic properties of transition metal ions with T ground terms from a consideration of t[superscript n subscript 2] e[superscript m] configurations | p. 100 |
| The magnetic properties of spin-paired transition metal complexes in cubic crystal fields | p. 104 |
| References | p. 106 |
| The magnetic properties of transition metal ions in axially symmetric crystal fields | p. 107 |
| The reduction of orbital angular momentum | p. 107 |
| The magnetic properties of T terms in axially symmetric crystal fields | p. 110 |
| The [superscript 2]T[subscript 2] term arising from a free ion [superscript 2]D term | p. 110 |
| The [superscript 3]T[subscript 1] term arising from a free ion [superscript 3]F term | p. 121 |
| The [superscript 5]T[subscript 2] term arising from a free ion [superscript 5]D term | p. 128 |
| The [superscript 4]T[subscript 1] term arising from a free ion [superscript 4]F term | p. 132 |
| The magnetic properties of A[subscript 2] and E terms in axially symmetric crystal fields | p. 137 |
| The [superscript 2]E[subscript g] term from the d[superscript 9] configuration in a tetragonally distorted octahedral environment | p. 138 |
| The [superscript 4]A[subscript 2g] term from the d[superscript 7] configuration in a tetragonally distorted tetrahedral environment | p. 143 |
| References | p. 149 |
| A comparison of experimental and calculated data | p. 150 |
| The d[superscript 9] configuration | p. 150 |
| The d[superscript 8] configuration | p. 156 |
| The d[superscript 7] configuration | p. 158 |
| The d[superscript 6] configuration | p. 159 |
| The d[superscript 2] configuration | p. 161 |
| The d[superscript 1] configuration | p. 165 |
| References | p. 168 |
| The magnetic properties of polynuclear transition metal complexes | p. 170 |
| Introduction | p. 170 |
| Mechanisms of antiferromagnetic exchange interactions | p. 172 |
| Direct Interaction | p. 172 |
| Superexchange | p. 174 |
| Antiferromagnetism in polynuclear transition metal complexes | p. 175 |
| Binuclear complexes | p. 178 |
| Triangular trinuclear complexes | p. 190 |
| Linear trinuclear complexes | p. 196 |
| References | p. 202 |
| Index | p. 204 |
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