Contents:

• Introduction: Coordination Chemistry and Its Multifacets (B V Agarwala & K N Munshi)
• Coordination Chemistry of Environment (D F Martin)
• Retrospective Studies on Metal Complexes as Synthetic Dioxygen Carriers of Biological Interest (F Basolo)
• Heterometal Alkoxides: A Novel Series of Stable Polymetallic Coordination Compounds (R C Mehrotra)
• Solvent Effects on the Reactions of Coordination Complexes (A C Dash et al.)
• A Simple Model for Fitting Properties of Binary Mixtures (E Högfeldt)
• Donor-Acceptor Interactions and Structural Flexibility of Coordination-Compounds in Solution (W Linert)
• NMR Spectroscopy of Oriented Systems: Application to Weak Molecular Complexes (C L Khetrapal)
• Cyclic Voltammetry (R C Kapoor)
• Chelating Polymers (C-Y Liu & K L Cheng)
• Optical Resolution of Metal Complexes by Column-Chromatography (M Fujita & Y Yoshikawa)
• Correlation between the Composition and Structure of Transition Metal Complexes and their R_F Values Obtained by Planar Chromatography (G Vuckovic et al.)
• Some Designs of Polyethers for Use in Membranes of Ion-Selective Electrodes (J D R Thomas)
• Copper Proteins and Their Various Roles in Biological Systems (P K Bhattacharya)
• Urinary Stones, Diet and Folk Medicine (A K Banerjee et al.)

"On the whole the book is good reference material for those who are engaged in teaching and research in the field of coordination chemistry."