| Abbreviations | p. xxvi |
| Reminiscences of Joseph Chatt Drawn from Conversations and from the Recollections of Co-workers | p. 1 |
| A Memoir of Joseph Chatt | p. 3 |
| A Memorable Start to a Career | p. 8 |
| Joseph Chatt and The Frythe: A Memoir of the Early 1950s | p. 11 |
| Recollections of Life with Joseph Chatt at The Frythe, 1958-62 | p. 18 |
| Joseph Chatt FRS: Some Memories of his Work at The Akers Research Laboratories of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd, The Frythe, during the 1950s | p. 25 |
| Recent Developments in the Synthesis, Bonding Modes and Reactivity of Hydrido and Dihydrogen Complexes | p. 29 |
| Hydrides, Hydrogen Bonding and Dihydrogen Activation | p. 31 |
| Hydrides and Dihydrogen Ruthenium Complexes: a Continuation of Joe Chatt's Chemistry | p. 45 |
| Hydrido Complexes of Group 6 Transition Metals--Formation of the Pentadentate Ligand with a P-P-Si-P-P Framework | p. 59 |
| The Chemistry of Phosphines | p. 67 |
| Some New Insights into the Steric Effects of Tertiary Phosphine Ligands via Data Mining | p. 69 |
| Synthesis of New and Unusual Metal Complexes from the Reaction of Dihalogen Adducts of Tertiary Phosphines with Unactivated Metal Powders | p. 79 |
| NMR Studies of Metal Complexes and Clusters with Carbonyls and Phosphines | p. 89 |
| Transition Metal Complexes of Olefins, Acetylenes, Arenes and Related Isolobal Ligands | p. 101 |
| Some Notes on the Early Development of Models of Bonding in Olefin--Metal Complexes | p. 103 |
| The Dewar--Chatt--Duncanson Bonding Model of Transition Metal--Olefin Complexes Examined by Modern Quantum Chemical Methods | p. 111 |
| Cycloaddition Reactions with Metalla-1,3-Dipoles | p. 123 |
| A Journey in Metal--Ligand Multiple Bond Chemistry | p. 140 |
| Synthesis, Characterisation and Catalytic Activity of Heterobimetal Complexes | p. 154 |
| Tethered Arene Complexes of Ruthenium | p. 163 |
| Chemistry Related to Dinitrogen Complexes | p. 169 |
| Chemistry at the Unit of Nitrogen Fixation | p. 171 |
| Dinitrogen Activation by Early Transition Metal--Amidophosphine Complexes | p. 187 |
| Metal--Dinitrogen Chemistry after Chatt | p. 198 |
| Novel Chemical Transformations at Diruthenium Centres Bridged by Thiolate Ligands | p. 208 |
| The Chemistry and Applications of Complexes with Sulfur Ligands | p. 217 |
| The Biological Work of the ARC Unit of Nitrogen Fixation at the University of Sussex, and Later Developments | p. 231 |
| Biological Nitrogen Fixation | p. 233 |
| Vanadium, Molybdenum and Iron Complexes Based on a Trithiolate Ligand | p. 252 |
| The Nature of Molybdenum and Tungsten Centres in Oxo-transfer Enzymes | p. 263 |
| Iron--Imide Clusters and Nitrogenase: Abiological Chemistry of Biological Relevance? | p. 278 |
| Determinants of the Reduction Potential in Rubredoxins, the Simplest Iron--Sulfur Electron-transfer Proteins | p. 288 |
| Patterns and Generalisations in Stability and Reactivity | p. 303 |
| Hard and Soft Acids and Bases and Joe Chatt | p. 305 |
| Mechanisms of Platinum Reactions | p. 313 |
| Tuning Rhodium(I) Metal Centre Accessibility in Iodomethane Oxidative Addition to Vaska-type Complexes by Interchanging Tertiary Phosphine for Arsine and Stibine | p. 328 |
| Other Papers Presented at the 34th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2000 | p. 341 |
| Formaldehyde Elimination from Methoxylated Transition Metal Carbonyl Clusters | p. 343 |
| Exploring New Structures Based on Chatt's {Pt[subscript 2]S[subscript 2]} Core for Nucleation of Intermetallic Growth | p. 355 |
| A Rational Design of Heteropolynuclear Squarate Complexes | p. 366 |
| Index of People and Places | p. 375 |
| Subject Index | p. 379 |
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