Prof. Dr. C. N. R. Rao
CSIR Centre of Excellence in Chemistry
and Chemistry and Physics of Materials
Unit
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research
Jakkur P.O.
Bangalore – 560 064
India
Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Achim Mu ¨ller
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Bielefeld
Postfach 10 01 31
D-33501 Bielefeld
Germany
Prof. Dr. A. K. Cheetham
Director
Materials Research Laboratory
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
USA
9 This book was carefully produced.
Nevertheless, authors, editors and publisher
do not warrant the information contained
therein to be free of errors. Readers are
advised to keep in mind that statements,
data, illustrations, procedural details or
other items may inadvertently be
inaccurate.
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CSIR Centre of Excellence in Chemistry
and Chemistry and Physics of Materials
Unit
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research
Jakkur P.O.
Bangalore – 560 064
India
Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Achim Mu ¨ller
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Bielefeld
Postfach 10 01 31
D-33501 Bielefeld
Germany
Prof. Dr. A. K. Cheetham
Director
Materials Research Laboratory
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
USA
9 This book was carefully produced.
Nevertheless, authors, editors and publisher
do not warrant the information contained
therein to be free of errors. Readers are
advised to keep in mind that statements,
data, illustrations, procedural details or
other items may inadvertently be
inaccurate.
Library of Congress Card No.: applied for
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library.
Bibliographic information published by Die
Deutsche Bibliothek
Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this
publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is
available in the Internet at http://dnb.ddb.de
( 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co.
KgaA, Weinheim
All rights reserved (including those of
translation in other languages). No part of
this book may be reproduced in any form –
by photoprinting, microfilm, or any other
means – nor transmitted or translated into
machine language without written
permission from the publishers. Registered
names, trademarks, etc. used in this book,
even when not specifically marked as such,
are not to be considered unprotected by law.
Printed in the Federal Republic of
Germany.
Printed on acid-free paper.
Composition Asco Typesetters, Hong Kong
Printing betz-druck gmbh, Darmstadt
Bookbinding J. Scha
¨ ffer GmbH & Co. KG,
Gru
¨ nstadt
ISBN 3-527-30686-2