Table of Contents:
  • Historical background and fundamental concepts / D.P. Mellor
  • The nature of the metal-ligand bond / D.P. Craig and R.S. Nyholm
  • Bidentate chelates / Clive M. Harris and Stanley E. Livingstone
  • Design and stereochemistry of multidentate chelating agents / Harold A. Goodwin
  • Optical phenomena in metal chelates / A.M. Sargeson
  • Oxidation-reduction potentials as functions of donor atom and ligand / D.A. Buckingham and A.M. Sargeson
  • Metal chelates of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and related substances / F.L. Garvan
  • Enzyme-metal ion activation and catalytic phenomena with metal complexes / F.P. Dwyer
  • Metal chelates in biological systems / A. Shulman and F.P. Dwyer
  • Physical and coordination chemistry of the tetrapyrrole pigments / J.E. Falk and J.N. Phillips.