Donald W. Murphy is the Editor-in-Chief of Inorganic Syntheses: Nonmolecular Solids, Volume 30, published by Wiley.Leonard V. Interrante, PhD, is Professor of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is Editor of the ACS journal, Chemistry of Materials.

• Chapter One BINARY COMPOUNDS. 1. Tungsten Dichloride. 2. Zirconium Monochloride and Monobromide. 3. Lanthanum Triiodide (and Other Rare-Earth Metal Triiodides). 4. Lanthanum Diiodide. 5. Rare-Earth Sesquisulfides, Ln2S3. 6. Group IV Sulfides. 7. Titanium Disulfide. 8. Metathetical Precursor Route to Molybdenum Disulfide. 9. Lithium Nitride, Li3N. 10. Aluminum Nitride. 11. Electrochemical Syntheses of Binary Silver Oxides. 12. Trisodium Heptaphosphide and Trisodium Undecaphosphide. Chapter Two TERNARY COMPOUNDS. 13. Lead Ruthenium Oxide, Pb2[Ru2-xPb¯4+x]O6.5. 14. Calcium Manganese Oxide, Ca2Mn3O8. 15. Ternary Chlorides and Bromides of the Rare-Earth Elements. 16. Cesium Scandium(II) Trichloride. 17. A One-Dimensional Polychalcogenide, K4Ti3S14. 18. Synthesis of K4M3Te17 (M = Zr, Hf) and K3CuNb2Se12. 19. Synthesis of Ternary Chalcogenides in Molten Polychalcogenide Salts: alpha-KCuQ4, KAuS5, NaBiS2, KFeQ2 (Q = S, Se). Chapter Three CRYSTAL GROWTH. 20. Single Crystals of Transition-Metal Dioxides. 21. Molybdenum(IV) Oxide and Tungsten(IV) Oxide Single Crystals. 22. Niobium Monoxide. 23. Barium Titanate, BaTiO3. 24. Bismuth Titanate, Bi4Ti3O12. 25. Sodium Tungsten Bronzes. 26. Potassium Molybdenum Oxide "Blue Bronze": K0.30MoO3. 27. Growth and Characterization of Single Crystals of Zinc Ferrites, Fe3-xZnxO4. 28. Congruent Growth of Single-Crystal La2NiO4 and Other Layered Nickelates by Radiofrequency Skull Melting. 29. Hydrothermal Synthesis and Crystal Growth of Potassium Titanyl Arsenate. KTiOAsO4. 30. Synthesis of La2Ta3Se2O8 Single Crystals. Chapter Four INTERCALATION COMPOUNDS. 31. The Alkali Ternary Oxides, AxCoO2 and AxCrO2 (A = Na, K). 32. Tantalum Disulfide (TaS2) and Its Intercalation Compounds. 33. Ammonia Solvated and Neat Lithium-Titanium Disulfide Intercalates. 34. Intercalation Compounds with Organic pi-Donors: FeOCl(TTF)1/8.5, FeOCl(TSF)1/8.5, and FeOCl(Perylene)1/9. 35, Layered Intercalation Compounds. 36 . Lithum Insertion Compounds. Chaper Five OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS. 37. Synthesis of Superconducting Oxides. 38. Synthesis of Tl2Ba2Can-1CunO2n+4 (n = 1,2,3), (Tl, M) Sr2CuO5+/-delta (M = Bi, Pb), and (Tl, Pb) Sr2CaCu2O7+/-delta. 39. Preparation of Ba4BiPb2TlO12, a 10.7 K Superconductor. 40. Barium Yttrium Copper Oxide Crystals. 41. Synthesis of the Perovskite Series LaCuO3-delta. 42. Lithium Niobium Oxide: LiNbO2 and Superconducting LixNbO2. Chapter Six MISCELLANEOUS SOLID-STATE COMPOUNDS. 43. Zeolite Molecular Sieves. 44. Substituted beta-Aluminas. 45. Vanadyl Phosphates and Organylphosphonates. 46. Quaternary Chlorides and Bromides of the Rare-Earth Elements: El pasolites A¯12B¯1RE¯111X6[r(A¯1) > r(B¯1)]. 47. Preparation of Ta2S2C. 48. Scandium Strontium Borate, Aluminum Strontium Yttrium Borate, and Lanthanum Magnesium Strontium Borate. 49. Preparation of ZrO2, ZnO, and ZnS Thin Films. Contributor Index. Subject Index. Formula Index. Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number Index.