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The material is aimed not at specialist theoreticians per se but at general inorganic and organometallic chemists who may like to model their systems and therefore need an overview of the capabilities of modern theoretical methods as applied to TM systems. The material described in Sects. 2 and 3 is deliberately simplified, in the interests of readability. Therefore, those who are familiar with theoretical concepts may find that many of the points made in Sect. 2 are well known and that the discussion of the various methods applied to TM molecules in Sect. 3 is somewhat vague. They should probably skip directly to the applications described in Sect. 4. 

Many will argue, of course, that it is not possible to put down a general set of rules which will allow the perfect method to be selected given a set of user-defined criteria. It is a truism in computational chemistry that it is always possible to find an example of a molecule which was expected to be adequately treated by a given theory but which, in reality, is treated relatively badly. Theory is said to fail for such a molecule. The inability to predict the feasibility of an experiment is, of course, not restricted to computational chemistry. However, discovering why the particular model was inadequate and remedying the failure often leads to beneficial advances in our understanding. 

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