| Acknowledgements | |
| Introducton: Engineering the Elements | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | How It All Fits Together: The architecture of molecules | 13 |
| Ch. 2 | Bringing Down the Barriers: Getting chemical reactions to go | 54 |
| Ch. 3 | Caught in the Act: Watching atoms dance | 83 |
| Ch. 4 | Impossible Order: When atoms meet geometry | 111 |
| Ch. 5 | Perfect Hosts and Welcome Guests: Molecules that recognize each other and build themselves | 145 |
| Ch. 6 | Metals from Molecules: Electronics goes organic | 186 |
| Ch. 7 | A Soft and Sticky World: The self-organizing magic of colloid chemistry | 216 |
| Ch. 8 | Chemical Beginnings: How chemistry came to life | 259 |
| Ch. 9 | Far from Stable: Fractals, chaos, and complexity in chemistry | 290 |
| Ch. 10 | Transforming the Globe: The crises of atmospheric chemistry | 323 |
| Bibliography | 351 |
| Index | 365 |
