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In chemical processes with transition metal participation charge transfer by coordination, intra-and intermolecular electron transfer, and electronconformational effects (conformation changes due to charge transfer) are of primary importance. Charge transfer by coordination is a unique property of TMS controlled by d-and f -electron heterogeneity (Chapter 6). Electron transfer in mixed-valence multicenter TMS determines their main features. Conformational transitions triggered by charge transfer are most important in both chemistry and biology. Examples of these phenomena as controlled by the electronic structure are briefly discussed in this chapter.
As stated in Section 1.2, chemical bonding is an electronic phenomenon based mostly on collectivization of the electrons of interacting atomic groups. Any chemical interaction of atoms is thus associated with electronic charge redistribution, which generates further transformations. Charge transfers are especially
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The electronic theory of transition metal systems pioneers a way of thinking in chemistry. This chapter is intended to introduce the reader to the objectives and main purpose of the book, to define the subject and the methods of its exploration, and to determine its "ecological niche" in the rapid