Inorganic Chromotropism

Presents and explains various kinds of reversible color changes of inorganic coordination compounds due to changes in the chemical and physical surrounding conditions. By approaching the subject of chromotropism from the standpoint of inorganic and coordination chemistry, the volume appeals to a wide readership and provides complete explanations, including the fundamental concepts of colors (basic inorganic spectroscopy), structure, and other physicochemical properties (magnetism, redox reaction, kinetic and thermodynamic) of the complexes, plus applications of these interesting colored materials. Graduate students and young chemists starting to investigate basic scientific researches and/or to synthesize and characterize new colored coordinate materials will find this to be a good reference volume.

Definition and Principles of Inorganic Chromotropism.- General Introduction of Inorganic Chromotropism and to the Origin of the Colors of Inorganic Materials.- What is Chromotropism?.- Various Chromotropic Phenomena.- Thermochromism.- Solvatochromism.- Piezochromism.- Photochromism.- Electrochromism.- Application to Inorganic Materials.