Physics and Chemistry of Transition Metal Oxides

I Introduction.- II Overviews.- Localized to Itinerant Electronic Transitions in Perovskite-Related Structures.- Crystal Distortions in Magnetic Compounds.- Present Status of the First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations for the Strongly Correlated Transition-Metal Oxides.- Aspects of Coupled Spin-Orbital Degrees of Freedom in d- and f-Electron Systems.- III Manganites.- Anisotropic Charge Dynamics in Layered Manganite Crystals.- Roles of Orbitals in Transition Metal Oxides.- Theory of Anomalous X-ray Scattering in a Variety of Orbital Ordered Manganites.- Nonlinear Optical Responses of Strongly Correlated Electronic System.- IV High Tc Cuprates.- Fermi-Liquid Versus Pseudogap Behaviors in Filling-Control Transition-Metal Oxides.- Metal-Insulator and Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in Correlated Electron Systems.- High Temperature Superconductors as a Member of Transition Metal Oxides.- Electronic Structure of Underdoped Superconductors and Related Mott Insulators.- Destruction of the Fermi Surface in Underdoped Cuprates.- Effects of Stripe Order on Charge Dynamics in La-Cuprates.- Spin Excitations in Pure and Zn-Substituted YBa2Cu3O6+x.- Static and Dynamical Incommensurate Spin Correlations in High-Tc Cuprates of La2?xSrxCuO4+y.- Experimental Studies on Singlet Formation in High-Tc Oxides and Quantum Spin Systems.- Thermal Conductivity as a Probe of Quasi-Particles in the Cuprates.- A New-Type Superconducting State Locally Induced Around a Vortex in the Two-Dimensional t-J Model.- Instability of a 2-Dimensional Landau-Fermi Liquid Due to Umklapp Scattering.- Antiferromagnetism, Singlet and Disorder.- The Spin Gap and Superconducting States of Underdoped Cuprates.- Gauge Field, Confinement, and Superconductivity in Underdoped High-Tc Cuprates.- AProgress Report on the SO(5) Theory of High Tc Superconductivity.- Nested Spin-Fluctuation Scenario for Anomalous Metallic Phase of High-TcCuprates.- V New Materials: Ladders, Ruthenates and Others.- Novel Transition Metal Oxides Prepared at High Pressure and Their Electronic Properties.- Spin and Charge Dynamics in the Hole-Doped Two-Leg Ladder Compound Sr14?xCaXCu24O41.- NMR Probe of Magnetic Order and Spin Correlation in Hole-Doped Ladder Cuprates.- Metal-Insulator and Magnetic Transitions in Layered Ruthenates.- Spin Triplet Superconductivity in Sr2 Ru04 - A New Territory for Experimentalists and Theorists.- Concluding Remarks.- List of Contributors.