Introduction.

Part One: Structure and Bonding.

1. Bonding in Coordination Compounds.

2. Classification of Ligands and Design of Coordination.

3. Stereochemistry and Distortions in Coordination Compounds.

4. Isomerism in Coordination compounds.

5. Polynucleating Ligands: From Di- and Polynuclear Complexes to Nanomolecules.

6. Metal-Metal Bond and Metal Clusters.

7. Thermodynamic and Non-redox Kinetic Factors in Coordination Compounds.

Part Two: Electronic Properties.

8. Crystal Field Theory and Spin-Orbit Coupling: Energy Terms and Multiplets.

9. Electronic Spectroscopy.

10. Molecular Magnetism.

11. Electron Paramagnetic resonance in Coordination Compounds.

Part Three: Electron Transfer.

12. Redox Mechanisms.

13. Mixed-valence Compounds.

Part Four: New Trends in Modern Coordination Chemistry.

14. Supramolecular Chemistry, Metallosupramolecular Chemistry and Molecular Architecture.

15. Photochemistry and Photophysics in Coordination Compounds.

16. Crystal Engineering: Metal-Organic Framework (MOFs).

17. Biocoordination Chemistry: Coordination Chemistry and Life.

Appendix 1. Tanabe-Sugano Diagrams (Chapter 8).

Appendix 2. Definitions and Units in Molecular Magnetism (Chapter 10).

Appendix 3. Xm formulae for some homodinuclear, dⁿ -dⁿ, and heterodinuclear, dⁿ  -dⁿ, complexes (Chapter 10).

Index.