[pt. 1.] General and theoretical aspects of the carbon-halogen bond / Georges H. Wagnière -- Structural chemistry of the C--X bond / J. Trotter -- Analysis of organic halogen compounds / Jacob Zabicky and Sarah Ehrlich-Rogozinski -- Mass spectrometry and the carbon-halogen bond / A.G. Loudon -- Hydrogen-bonding and complex-forming properties / J.W. Smith -- Directing, activating and deactivating effects / G. Modena and G. Scorrano -- Heterolytic mechanisms of substitution involving carbon-halogen bonds / P.B.D. de la Mare and B.E. Swedlund -- Homolytic mechanisms of substitution / Earl S. Huyser -- [pt. 2.] Elimination reactions in solution / R.A. More O'Ferrall -- Pyrolysis reactions involving carbon-halogen bonds / Kurt W. Egger and Alan T. Cocks -- Photochemistry of the C--X group / P.G. Sammes -- Radiation chemistry of the carbon-halogen bond / Rolf E. Bühler -- The biochemistry of carbon-halogen compounds / Shawn Doonan -- Perchloro-, perbromo- and periodo-compounds / T. Chivers -- Electrochemistry of the carbon-halogen bond / Joseph Casanova and Lennart Eberson -- Thermochemistry of organic halides / Robert Shaw -- Rearrangements involving halides / C. Rappe.