PNNL

Abstract

This book describes in detail the magnetic behavior of molecules. Overall this is an interesting book that covers the basic theory for the magnetic behavior of molecules. The book is at the level of a first/second year graduate student in physical chemistry. It would be extremely difficult for most experimental inorganic chemists to get through this book without a full year graduate level course in quantum mechanics. It is an extremely useful book for the practitioner in this area as it collects many of the important equations, results, and derivations in one place. This book is a useful summary of the field for those who want to interpret data and perform manual calculations. It is not focused on using the machinery of modern computational chemistry to solve such problems, in my opinion, an important drawback. It is divided into 11 chapters and there are 6 useful appendices. Each chapter ends with a short, useful summary.