Halide ligands overview

This review will attempt to deal with the chemistry of the halogens appropriate to those compounds considered as coordination compounds. It will not include reference to astatine, which is covered by the general reviews listed above and for which little chemistry is known at all, and almost none as a coordinated ligand. Since the chemistry of the halides of individual elements is treated in the chapters for those elements, this section will be concerned with an overview of the general properties of the group. 

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