This is an up-to-date and comprehensive work that presents various kinds of reversible color changes of inorganic coordination compounds due to changes in the chemical and physical surrounding conditions. Graduate students and young chemists starting out on their research, as well as scientists trying to synthesize and characterize new colored coordinate materials will find this a uniquely essential text.

Definition and Principles of Inorganic Chromotropism

General Introduction of Inorganic Chromotropism and to the Origin of the Colors of Inorganic Materials
What is Chromotropism?
Various Chromotropic Phenomena
Thermochromism
Solvatochromism
Piezochromism
Photochromism
Electrochromism
Application to Inorganic Materials.