| Preface | 7 |
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| Contents | 10 |
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| List of Symbols and Abbreviations | 12 |
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| 1 Introduction: Historical Remarks | 17 |
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| 2 Basic Concepts | 23 |
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| 2.1 Charge Transfer | 23 |
| 2.2 Molecular Orbitals and Transfer Integrals | 24 |
| 3 Structural Aspects | 29 |
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| 3.1 Molecular Building Blocks | 29 |
| 3.2 Crystal Structures | 32 |
| 3.3 Anion Ordering and Glassy Phenomena | 45 |
| 4 Normal-State Properties | 53 |
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| 4.1 Tight-Binding Model | 53 |
| 4.2 Fermi Surfaces and Low Dimensionality | 58 |
| 4.3 Electronic Properties | 61 |
| 4.4 Instabilities Involving Spin- and Charge-Degrees of Freedom | 91 |
| 4.5 Many-Body Effects | 103 |
| 4.6 Phase Diagrams | 107 |
| 5 Magnetic-Field Effects | 115 |
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| 5.1 Electron Motion in Magnetic Fields | 116 |
| 5.2 Magnetic Quantum Oscillations | 125 |
| 5.3 High-Magnetic Field States | 144 |
| 6 Superconductivity | 157 |
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| 6.1 Occurrence of Superconductivity in Molecular Metals | 157 |
| 6.2 Ginzburg-Landau Theory | 159 |
| 6.3 The Superconducting Phase Transition | 163 |
| 6.4 Superconducting Parameters | 180 |
| 6.5 The Superconducting Mixed State | 186 |
| 6.6 Superconducting Order-Parameter | 204 |
| 6.7 On the Pairing Mechanism | 226 |
| 7 Phenomena of Interacting p- and d-Electrons | 235 |
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| 7.1 (DCNQI)2Cu | 235 |
| 7.2 (BEDT-TSF)2FeX4 (X=Cl,Br) | 240 |
| 8 Epilogue | 263 |
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| References | 265 |
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| Index | 307 |