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Peter Comba is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Neuchâtel, France, in 1981. He became lecturer in Basel in 1992 and was shortly afterwards called to Heidelberg. He received the Humboldt and South Africa Research Awards in 2000 and spent visiting professorships in Leiden, the Netherlands, ANU and Pretoria. His research is divided between theory and practice of transition metal coordination chemistry - molecular modeling, thermodynamics, kinetics and mechanisms on the one hand, and synthesis, metal-based template reactions, catalysis and magnetochemistry on the other. Marion Kerscher is group leader within the Comba research group.

INTRODUCTION CONCEPTS Structure: Rigidity and Elasticity; Preorganization and Complementarity; Fit and Misfit Structure and Electronics: Ligand Fields and Spectroscopy; Jahn-Teller Effects; Trans-Influences; Spin States and Cross-over Structure and Thermodynamics: Stability Constants; Redox Potentials Structure and Reactivity: Electron Transfer; Ligand Substitution; Activation of Coordinated Molecules APPLICATION Bioinorganic Models Catalysis Supramolecular Chemistry Molecular Machines Energy Conversion and Storage Environmetal Chemistry