Introduction to coordination chemistry
– striking difference
– historical background

Fundamentals of Structure and Bonding
– atomic orbitals
– molecular orbitals

18-Electron Rule
– counting electrons
– why 18 electrons?
– square planar complexes

Carbonyl and Pi Ligands
– Pi bonding
– oxygen-bonded carbonyls
– ligands similar to CO
– linear Pi systems
– cyclic Pi systems
– infrared and NMR spectra of organometallic compounds

Organometallic reactions I
– reactions that occur at the metal
– ligand substitution
– oxidative addition
– reductive elimination

Organometallic reactions II
– reaction involving modification of ligands
– insertion and deinsertion
– nucleophilic addition to the ligand
– nucleophilic abstraction and electrophilic reactions

Application of coordination chemistry to molecular magnetism
– electronic structure of coordinated ions
– design single-ions
– the crystal field

Toward the Molecular Ferromagnetism
– magnetic Interactions
– spin Hamiltonians and multicenter interactions

Structure and properties of p, d and f coupled systems
– magnetic coupling in organics
– magnetism in nitroxides
– metallorganic magnets

Single Molecular Magnets SMM
– Mn12 – the start
– Fe4 structure and magnetic properties
– SMM with Lanthanides