Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths: Volume 40 - Hardcover

Gschneidner Jr., Karl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 044453220X ISBN 13: 9780444532206

Publisher: North Holland, 2009

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This volume of the Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earth adds four chapters to the series which focus on stunning compounds and unusual spectroscopic methods, describing a mix of experimental and theoretical data. It opens with a review (Chapter 244) on magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), a very informative spectroscopy, although not yet widespread. The following chapters illustrate the state of the art in subjects as varied as molecular lanthanide clusters, the synthesis of which still relies on random self-organization (Chapter 245), low-valence organometallic compounds which were long thought to be too unstable to be isolated (Chapter 246), and lanthanide and actinide polynuclear helicates in which organic ligand strands wrap helically by self-assembly around metal centers (Chapter 247). Each chapter also discusses present and potential applications of the technique or compounds reviewed.

About the Author:

Gschneidner has published over 485 journal articles and chapters in books and edited or written 40 books on the chemistry, materials science, and physics or rare earth materials. He was the founder of the Rare-earth Information Center and served as its Director for 30 years.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 044453220X
• ISBN 13: 9780444532206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 600