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Partial table of contents: <p>EARLY OBSERVATIONS OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN C-H BONDS AND TRANSITION METAL CENTERS.</p> <p>CLASSIFICATION OF COMPOUNDS WITH AGOSTIC BONDS.</p> <p>GENERAL PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES.</p> <p>Structural Determinations Using X-Ray, Neutron, and Electron Diffraction Techniques.</p> <p>Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies.</p> <p>Infrared Spectroscopy.</p> <p>THE NATURE OF AGOSTIC BONDING.</p> <p>General Considerations Concerning Three-Center, Two-Electron Bonds.</p> <p>The Representation of Agostic Bonds: The Half-Arrow Convention.</p> <p>Theoretical Discussions of Molecules Containing Distortions at the α-Carbon Atom: Distorted Methyl Groups and Distorted Alkylidene Ligands.</p> <p>COMPOUNDS CONTAINING AGOSTIC M-H-C GROUPS.</p> <p>Agostic Alkyls.</p> <p>Agostic Alkylidene Compounds.</p> <p>Agostic Compounds Involving Unsaturated Hydrocarbon Ligands.</p> <p>COMPOUNDS CONTAINING METAL-HYDROGEN-M' BRIDGES WHERE M' = B, N, Si, Cl, F. Metal-Hydrogen-Boron-Bridges.</p> <p>Three Center, Two-Electron Bonding in the M-H-Si System.</p> <p>Metal-Hydrogen-Nitrogen Bridges.</p> <p>MISCELLANEOUS AGOSTIC SYSTEMS.</p> <p>IMPLICATIONS OF AGOSTIC INTERACTIONS IN TRANSITION METAL CATALYZED REACTIONS OF HYDROCARBONS.</p> <p>General Observations.</p> <p>CONCLUSIONS.</p> <p>References.</p>

<p><b>STEPHEN J. LIPPARD</b> is Arthur Noyes Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His recent honors include election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986, the 1987 Remson Award of Maryland Section of the ACS, the 1987 ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by the Monsanto Company, a 1988 Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award, and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.</p>

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