Joseph Chatt and The Frythe: A memoir of the early 1950s
Recollections of life with Joseph Chatt at The Frythe, 1958-62
Hydrides, hydrogen bonding and dihydrogen activation
NMR Studies of metal complexes and clusters with carbonyls and phosphines
Transition metal complexes of olefins, acetylenes, arenes and related isolobal ligands
Some notes on the early development of models of bonding in olefin-metal complexes
Cycloaddition reactions with metalla-1, 3-dipoles
A journey in metal-ligand multiple bond chemistry
Synthesis, characterisation and catalytic activity of heterobimetal complexes
Tethered arene complexes of ruthenium
Chemistry at the unit of nitogen fixation
Dinitrogen activation by early transition metal-amido phosphine complexes
The biological work of the ARC unit of nitrogen fixation at the University of Sussex, and later developments
Vanadium, molybdenum and iron complexes based on a trithiolate ligand
The natur of molybdenum and tungsten centres in oxo-transfer enzymes
Iron-imide clusters and nitrogenase: Abiological chemistry of biological relevance?
Patterns and generalisations in stability and reactivity
Hard and soft acids and bases and joe chatt
A rational design of heteropolynuclear squarate complexes
Index of people and places
Subject index
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About this book
Coordination 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.