1: Introduction; 2: Typical ligands; 3: Nomenclature, geometrical structure and isomerism of coordination compounds; 4: Preparation of coordination compounds; 5: Stability of coordination compounds; 6: Molecular orbital theory of transition metal complexes; 7: Crystal field theory of transition metal complexes; 8: Electronic spectra of transition metal complexes; 9: Magnetic properties of transition metal complexes; 10: Beyond ligand field theory; 11: f electron systems: the lanthanides and actinides; 12: Other methods of studying coordination compounds; 13: Thermodynamic and related aspects of ligand fields; 14: Reaction kinetics of coordination compounds; 15: Bonding in cluster compounds; 16: Some aspects of bioinorganic chemistry; 17: Introduction to the theory of the solid state
