Physics and Chemistry of Metal Cluster Compounds

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction to Metal Cluster Compounds: From Molecule to Metal!

   • L. J. De Jongh

   Pages 1-39

3. High-Nuclearity Carbonyl Metal Clusters

   • Alessandro Ceriotti, Roberto Della Pergola, Luigi Garlaschelli

   Pages 41-106

4. Ligand-Stabilized Giant Metal Clusters and Colloids

   • G. Schmid

   Pages 107-134

5. Theory of Electronic Properties of Metal Clusters and Particles

   • D. E. Ellis

   Pages 135-157

6. X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Applied to Pure and Supported Molecular Metal Clusters

   • R. Zanoni

   Pages 159-182

7. Application of Mössbauer Effect Spectroscopy to Cluster Research

   • R. C. Thiel, H. H. Smit, L. J. De Jongh

   Pages 183-209

8. Specific Heat Studies on Metal Cluster Compounds

   • H. B. Brom, J. Baak, L. J. De Jongh

   Pages 211-226

9. NMR in Submicron Particles

   • H. B. Brom, D. Van Der Putten, L. J. De Jongh

   Pages 227-247

10. Magnetic Properties and UV-Visible Spectroscopic Studies of Metal Cluster Compounds

    • R. E. Benfield

    Pages 249-275

11. Magnetic Properties of Metal Cluster Compounds

    • J. M. Van Ruitenbeek, D. A. Van Leeuwen, L. J. De Jongh

    Pages 277-306

12. Back Matter

    Pages 307-320

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On Friday, February 20, 1980, I had the pleasure to be present at the inaugural lecture of my colleague Jan Reedijk, who had just been named at the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry of Leiden University. According to tradition, the ceremony took place in the impressive Hall of the old University Academy Building. In the course of his lecture, Jan mentioned a number of recent developments in chemistry which had struck him as particularly important or interesting. Among those was the synthesis of large metal cluster compounds, and, to my luck, he showed a slide ofthe molecular structure of [PtI9(C)b]4-. (To my luck, since at traditional Leiden University it is quite unusual to show slides at such ceremonies.) This constituted my first acquaintance with this exciting new class of materials. I became immediately fascinated by this molecule, partly because of the esthetic beauty of its fivefold symmetry, partly because as a physicist it struck me that it could be visualized as an "embryonically small" metal particle, embedded in a shell of CO ligands.

• chemistry
• cluster
• colloid
• electron spectroscopy
• metals
• photoelectron spectroscopy
• spectroscopy

• Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, The Netherlands

  L. J. Jongh

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