This comprehensive compilation brings together in one place all of the knowledge constituting the discipline of modern inorganic chemistry. It synthesizes for the first time, with an unprecedented logic and completeness, the entire synthetic arsenal currently available to inorganic chemists. Distinguished chemists, among them three nobel laureates ( E. O. Fischer, H. Taube, and Sir G. Wilkinson), have devoted their time, energy, and expertise as editorial advisors and consultants to create this closed-end series, which will include not only the (classical) chemistry of the elements, but also all the frontiers of today"s research. Organometallic, polymer and solid-state materials, coordination compounds, donor-acceptor adducts, and compounds relevant to bioinorganic chemistry are as reliably covered as the analytical, physical, and technical aspects underlying these subjects.