Annual Reports in Inorganic and General Syntheses-1972 presents an organized annual summary of synthetic developments in inorganic chemistry and its related areas. The book discusses alkali and alkaline earth elements, alloys, silver, gold, zinc, cadmium, mercury, boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, thallium, yttrium, scandium, lanthanides, actinides, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, Group V and VI transition elements, manganese, technetium, rhenium, iron, cobalt, nickel, ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, and iridium. The text also describes the chemistry of palladium, platinum, silicon, germanium, tin, lead, nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, chalcogenides, fluorine, halogens, pseudohalogens, noble gases, and simple and complex metal hydrides of main groups I, I, and III. New techniques and reagents in synthetic coordination chemistry, as well as the stabilizing effects of large counter-ions are also encompassed. Chemists, chemistry students, and people working in chemical laboratories will find the book invaluable.