The volumes in this continuing series provide a compilation of current techniques and ideas in inorganic synthetic chemistry. Includes inorganic polymer syntheses and preperation of important inorganic solidsd, sutheses used in the development of pharamacologically active inorganic compounds, small-molecule coordination complexes, and related compounds. Also contains calcuable information on transition organometallic compunds, including species with meta-metal cluster molecules. All syntheses presented here have been tested.

Alan Herbert Cowley FRS is a British chemist, and Robert A. Welch Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a 1976 Guggenheim Fellow.