Includes bibliographical references and index.

nuclear chemistry, quantum theory and atomic structure, electronic configurations and some physical properties of atoms, electronic configurations of molecules, some physical properties of molecules, the structures and energetics of inorganic solids, inorganic chemistry in aqueous media, inorganic chemistry in non-aqueous media, hydrogen, the alkali metals, beryllium, magnesium and the alkaline earth metals, boron, aluminium, gallium, indium and thallium, carbon, silicon, germanium, tin and lead, nitrogen, phosphorus, arseni, antimony and bismuth, oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium and polonium, the halogens, the noble gases, the transition elements, electronic configurations, electronic spectra and magnetic properties of transition metal compounds, thermodynamic aspects of transition metal chemistry, kinetic aspects of transition metal chemistry, transition metal carbonyls and related compounds, organometallic compounds of the transition metals, transition metals of the first series, transition metals of the second and third series, inner transition elements: the lanthanides, inner transition elements: the actinides