Electronic Structure and Properties of Transition Metal Compounds: Introduction to the Theory Book

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	Abbreviations
1	Introduction: Subject and Methods	1
2	Atomic States	16
3	Symmetry Ideas and Group-Theoretical Description	50
4	Crystal Field Theory	76
5	Method of Molecular Orbitals and Related Approaches	121
6	Electronic Structure and Chemical Bonding	194
7	Electronic Control of Nuclear Configuration; Vibrations and Vibronic Coupling	273
8	Electronic Structure Investigated by Physical Methods	337
9	Stereochemistry and Crystal Chemistry	422
10	Electron Transfer, Redox Properties, and Electron-Conformational Effects	516
11	Reactivity and Catalytic Action	562
	Appendix 1: Tables of Characters of Irreducible Representations of the Most Usable Symmetry Point Groups (Chapter 3) and Direct Products of Some Representations	638
	Appendix 2: General Expressions for the Matrix Element V[subscript mm], of Perturbation of the States of One d Electron in Crystal Fields of Arbitrary Symmetry	643
	Appendix 3: Calculation of the Destabilization and Splitting of the States of One d Electron in Crystal Fields of Different Symmetries	646
	Appendix 4: Matrix Elements of Crystal Field Perturbation of a Two-Electron Term F(nd)[superscript 2], V[subscript ij], i, j = 1, 2..., 7, After (4.34) Expressed by One-Electron Matrix Elements V[subscript mm], Given in Appendix 2	649
	Appendix 5: Matrix Elements of Crystal Field Perturbation of f Electron States (After [4.22])	650
	Subject Index	653
	Formula Index	661