This book reviews current and future trends in modern chemical research, focusing on chemical structure and bonding. Covers development of electronic structure theories for transition metal complexes, orbital models and electronic structure theory and more.

T. Ziegler: A Chronicle About the Development of Electronic Structure Theories for Transition Metal Complexes.- J. Linderberg: Orbital Models and Electronic Structure Theory.- J.S. and J.E. Avery: Sturmians and Generalized Sturmians in Quantum Theory.- B.T Sutcliffe: Chemistry as a Manifestation of Quantum Phenomena and the BornOppenheimer Approximation?- A.J. McCaffery: From Ligand Field Theory to Molecular Collision Dynamics: A Common Thread of Angular Momentum.- M. Atanasov, D. Ganyushin, K. Sivalingam and F. Neese: A Modern First-Principles View on Ligand Field Theory Through the Eyes of Correlated Multireference Wavefunctions.- R.S. Berry and B.M. Smirnov: The Phase Rule: Beyond Myopia to Understanding.

This series presents critical reviews of the present position and future trends in modern chemical research concerned with chemical structure and bonding Short and concise reports, each written by the world's renowned experts Still valid and useful after 5 or 10 years More information as well as the electronic version of the whole content available at: springerlink.com Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras