Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Background and Discovery of Dihydrogen Coordination

Chapter 3 Synthesis and General Properties of Dihydrogen Complexes

Chapter 4 Bonding and Activation of Dihydrogen and σ Ligands: Theory versus Experiment

Chapter 5 Structural and NMR Studies of Dihydrogen Complexes

Chapter 6 Intramolecular Dynamics of Dihydrogen-hydride Ligand Systems: Hydrogen Rotation, Exchange, and Quantum-mechanical Effects

Chapter 7 Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Isotope Effects of the Binding and Cleavage of σ Ligands versus Classical Ligands

Chapter 8 Vibrational Studies of Coordinated Dihydrogen

Chapter 10 Activation of Hydrogen and Related Small Molecules by Metalloenzymes and Sulfur Ligand Systems

Chapter 11 Coordination and Activation of Si-H, Ge-H, and Sn-H Bonds

Chapter 12 C-H Bond Coordination and Activation

Chapter 13 Coordination and Activation of B-H and Other X-H and X-Y Bonds