Introduction

• List of symbols
• General remarks
• Theoretical basis
  • Definitions and fundamental relations
  • Diamagnetism and diamagnetic corrections
  • Paramagnetic susceptibility of polycrystalline substances
  • Paramagnetic anisotropy
  • Ligand field effects, high-spin and low-spin compounds and crossover situations
  • More detailed theory of magnetic susceptibilities and magnetism diagrams
  • Dimers and clusters, linear chain and planar magnetic systems
  • Long-range order: ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism
• Arrangement of tables
• Abbreviations
• Selected diamagnetic ionic susceptibilities, Pascal constants, and one-electron spin-orbit coupling constants
• Theoretical nomograms; calculated magnetic moments, spin-orbit coupling, axial field splitting and orbital reduction
• References for the introduction
• References to crystal structure