PREFACE; PART A: AN OVERVIEW OF NOBLE GAS CHEMISTRY; A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION; The Nobel Prizes of 1904; The Birth of a Myth; A Matter of Environment; Chemistry Officially Begin; Moving on Different Roads; TYPICAL COMPOUNDS AND BINDING MOTIFS; Complexes with Neutral and Ionic Ligands; Adsorption, Inclusion, and Cage Complexes; Dicoordinated ("Inserted") Compounds; Polycoordinated Compounds; Miscellanea; CHEMISTRY IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS; Chemistry in the Bulk Phase; Chemistry under High Pressures; Chemistry in Cold Matrices; Chemistry in Supercritical Fluids; ; CHEMISTRY IN SILICO; The Role of Calculations in Noble-Gas Chemistry; Structure and Stability; Bonding Analysis; Reaction Paths, Kinetics, and Dynamics; Solvation and Environment Effects; PART B: GAS-PHASE CHEMISTRY OF THE NOBLE GASES; NEUTRAL SPECIES; A Landscape View; Noble Gas Diatomics and Larger Clusters; Complexes with H₂ and HX (X = F, Cl, Br); Complexes with Hydrocarbons; Complexes with H₂O and H₂S; Complexes with NH₃; Complexes with CO, CO₂, and COS; Complexes with N₂, O₂, and N₂O; Complexes with Halocompounds; Complexes with Metal Compounds; Inserted Compounds; Cage Compounds; IONIC SPECIES; A Landscape View; Ionized Noble Gases; Protonated Noble Gases; Complexes with Metal Cations; Complexes with Metal Anions; Complexes with non-Metal Cations; Complexes with non-Metal Anions; Cage Compounds; Reactions of Singly-Charged Cations; Reactions of Singly-Charged Anions; Reactions involving Doubly-Charged Cations.