Product Description : Chemistry of Precious Metals Some 20 years ago I was privileged to share in writing a book on the descriptive chemistry of the 4d 5d 4f and 5f metals that included these eight elements within its compass SA Cotton and FA Hart The Heavy Transition Elements Macmillan 1975 This volume shares the same aim of covering the descriptive chemistry of silver gold and the six platinum metals in some detail at a level suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate study It does not attempt to be a comprehensive treatise on the chemistry of these metals It attempts to fill a slot between the general text and the indepth review or monograph The organometallic chemistry is confined to abonded com pounds in normal oxidation states compounds with ITbonding ligands are generally excluded Their inclusion would have increased the length of the book considerably and moreover their recent chemistry has been extensively and expertly reviewed in the new Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II eds G Wilkinson FGA Stone and EW Abel Pergamon Oxford 1995