Description
Book SynopsisCoordination chemistry, as we know it today, has been shaped by major figures from the past, one of whom was Joseph Chatt. Beginning with a description of Chatt''s career presented by co-workers, contemporaries and students, this fascinating book then goes on to show how many of today''s leading practitioners in the field, working in such diverse areas as phosphines, hydrogen complexes, transition metal complexes and nitrogen fixation, have been influenced by Chatt. The reader is then brought right up-to-date with the inclusion of some of the latest research on these topics, all of which serves to underline Chatt''s continuing legacy. Intended as a permanent record of Chatt''s life, work and influence, this book will be of interest to lecturers, graduate students, researchers and science historians.
Table of ContentsReminiscences of Joseph Chatt drawn from conversations with him and from the recollections of his earlier collaborators; Recent Developments in the Synthesis, Bonding Modes and Reactivity of Hydrido and Dihydrogen Complexes; The Chemistry of Phosphines; Transition Metal Complexes of Olefins, Acetylenes, Arenes and Related Isolobal Ligands; Chemistry Related to Dinitrogen Complexes; The Biological Work of the ARC Unit of Nitrogen Fixation at the University of Sussex, and Further Developments in the hands of Collaborators and Colleagues; Patterns and Generalisations in Stability and Reactivity; Subject Index.
