A millennial overview of transition metal chemistry

摘要

The present state of transition metal chemistry (restricted largely to the d-block elements) is surveyed with an eye to the history of the subject. With the coordination chemistry of Alfred Werner as a base of reference, there are (evolutionary) developments that may be considered as evolving naturally therefrom and (revolutionary) developments that seem not to have been adumbrated by the Wernerian concepts. [References: 40]