This Dover edition, first published in 2021, is a revised republication of the work originally published by VCH Publishers, Inc., New York, in 1993. A new Foreword by Dr. Roald Hoffmann has been added, as well as a new Introduction, and a number of corrections have been made to the text.

Machine generated contents note: Contents: -- List of the Main Symbols -- 1. Magnetism and Magnetic Susceptibility -- 2. Molecules Containing a Unique Magnetic Center Without First-Order Orbital Momentum -- 3. Molecules Containing a Unique Magnetic Center With a First-Order Orbital Momentum -- 4. Low-Spin-High-Spin Transition -- 5. Intermediate-Spin and Spin-Admixed States -- 6. Isotropic Interaction in Dinuclear Compounds -- 7. Dipolar, Anisotropic, and Antisymmetric Interactions in Dinuclear Compounds -- 8. Orbital Models of the Isotropic Interaction: Case of Two Local Doublet States -- 9. Orbital Models for Magnetic Interaction: Other Cases -- 10. Trinuclear Compounds and Compounds of Higher Nuclearity -- 11. Magnetic Chain Compounds -- 12. Magnetic Long-Range Ordering in Molecular Compounds: Design of Molecular-Based Magnets -- 13. Spin-Dependent Delocalization in Mixed-Valence Compounds -- Appendices 1-6 -- Index.

"This highly regarded and historic book represents the first comprehensive discussion of both theoretical and experimental aspects of molecular magnetism research. It covers basic concepts of magnetization and magnetic susceptibility, establishes the fundamental equations of molecular magnetism, and examines molecules containing a unique magnetic center. The treatment is suitable for graduate students and professionals in inorganic, theoretical, physical, and bioinorganic chemistry; materials science and molecular electronics; and physics and biophysics"--

"This highly regarded and historic book represents the first comprehensive discussion of both theoretical and experimental aspects of molecular magnetism research. It covers basic concepts of magnetization and magnetic susceptibility, establishes the fundamental equations of molecular magnetism, and examines molecules containing a unique magnetic center. The treatment is suitable for graduate students and professionals in inorganic, theoretical, physical, and bioinorganic chemistry; materials science and molecular electronics; and physics and biophysics. This newly updated edition features contributions from the author's colleagues, including Dr. Michel Verdaguer"--