Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

Abstract

The other major change that Geoffrey Wilkinson and 1 have made is to redistribute the content of the book. It has always been our desire to keep the physical siz of the book to about that of the fifth edition, or, if possible, a little less. A nother point that influenced our thinking was the increased appearance of books that deal with the broad principles of fields like organometallic chemistry, reaction mechanisms, bioinorganic chemistry and catalysis. We thus decided to eliminate some of the broad topical chapters previously included (e.g., Bioinorganic Chemistry) and enlarge the coverage of the individual elements (or groups) to deal with these types of chemistry on an element by elem ent basis. This does not necessarily correspond to a reduction in space devoted to important topics. For example, more, not less, space is now devoted to the biochemistry of iron. In its arrangem ent of material, this edition is now more like the third edition than the fourth or fifth, though of course the amount of material is much greater.