1. What Are One-Dimensional Conductors?.- 2. Fundamental Properties of Electronic Systems in One Dimension.- 2.1 The One-Dimensional Conduction Band and the Peierls Instability.- 2.1.1 Conduction Electrons in a One-Dimensional Band.- 2.1.2 The Peierls Instability and the Peierls Transition.- a) The Polarization function.- b) The Peierls Transition.- 2.1.3 Electron-Phonon Coupling and Kohn Anomalies.- a) Electron-Phonon Interactions.- b) The Kohn Anomaly.- c) The Order Parameter of the Peierls Transition.- 2.1.4 Nesting of the Fermi Surface.- 2.2 Charge Density Waves.- 2.2.1 Charge Density Waves and the Peierls-Fröhlich Mechanism.- 2.2.2 Dynamics of Charge Density Waves.- a) Phasons.- b) Motion of the Phase.- c) Pinning.- d) Electrical Conduction Due to the Sliding Motion of Charge Density Waves.- e) Phase Solitons and Electrical Conductivity.- 2.3 Fluctuations and Three-Dimensionality.- 2.3.1 Fluctuations in One Dimension.- 2.3.2 Fluctuations and the Pseudo-Gap.- 2.3.3 Three-Dimensionality and the Peierls Transition.- 2.4 Roles of the Coulomb Interaction.- 2.4.1 The Tight-Binding Model.- 2.4.2 Short-Range Coulomb Interactions.- 2.4.3 Long-Range Coulomb Interactions.- 2.4.4 Coulomb Interactions and Charge Density Waves.- 2.4.5 The Spin-Peierls Transition.- 3. Properties of TTF-TCNQ and Its Family.- 3.1 Molecular Synthesis and Crystal Growth.- 3.2 Electrical Properties.- 3.2.1 The One-Dimensional Conduction Band and the Electrical Conductivity.- 3.2.2 One-Dimensionality of the Metallic Property.- 3.2.3 High Frequency Conductivity.- 3.2.4 Nonlinear Conduction in the Insulating Phase.- 3.3 Magnetic Properties.- 3.3.1 Spin Susceptibility.- 3.3.2 Spin Susceptibility of Each Kind of Molecular Stack.- 3.4 Behaviour of the CDW.- 3.4.1 TheKF CDW and the Kohn Anomaly 71.- 3.4.2 Interchain Interactions.- 3.4.3 Origins of theKF CDW 80.- 3.4.4 Dynamics of Charge Density Waves.- 3.5 Characteristic Properties of Compounds Belonging to the Family of TTF-TCNQ.- 3.5.1 TSeF-TCNQ.- 3.5.2 HMTTF-TCNQ and TMTSF-TCNQ.- 3.5.3 NMP-TCNQ.- 3.5.4 TMTSF-DMTCNQ.- 3.6 Superconductivity in (TMTSF)2X and Its Family.- 3.6.1 Crystal Structure of (TMTSF)2X.- 3.6.2 Electrical Properties.- 3.6.3 Superconductivity.- 3.6.4 Spin Density Waves.- 3.6.5 Orientational Ordering of Counter Anions X.- 3.6.6 Superconductivity in (BEDT-TTF)2X.- a) (BEDT-TTF)2ReO4.- b) (BEDT-TTF)2I3.- 4. Properties of MX3.- 4.1 Preparation and Crystal Structure.- 4.1.1 Preparation of Single Crystals.- 4.1.2 Crystal Structure.- 4.2 Charge Density Waves in NbSe3.- 4.2.1 Anomalies in the dc Conductivity and the Periodic Lattice Distortion.- 4.2.2 Conductivity Anisotropy, Hall Effect and Thermoelectric Power.- 4.2.3 Nonlinear Electrical Conductivity: Sliding Motion of Charge Density Waves.- a) The dc Conductivity.- b) High Frequency Conductivity and Dielectric Constant.- c) Electrical Noise.- d) Sliding CDW: A Rigid Body?.- 4.2.4 Superconductivity.- 4.3 Charge Density Waves in TaS3.- 4.3.1 “Orthorhombic” (o-)TaS3.- 4.3.2 Monoclinic (m-)TaS3.- 4.4 Superconductivity in TaSe3.- 5. Properties of KCP.- 5.1 Mixed Valence Pt Compounds.- 5.2 Crystal Structure and the Preparation of Single Crystals.- 5.2.1 Preparation of Single Crystals.- 5.2.2 Crystal Structure.- 5.2.3 Crystal Structure and Electronic States.- 5.3 Electrical Properties.- 5.3.1 Electrical Conductivity.- 5.3.2 Optical Properties.- 5.4 Magnetic Properties.- 5.4.1 Magnetic Susceptibility.- 5.4.2 Electron Spin Resonance.- 5.4.3 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.- 5.5 Charge Density Waves and the Kohn Anomaly.- 5.5.1 X-ray Scattering.- 5.5.2 Structural Analysis by X-ray and Neutron Diffraction.- 5.5.3 Elastic Neutron Scattering.- 5.5.4 Inelastic Neutron Scattering.- 5.6 Behaviour of the Water of Crystallization.- 5.6.1 Position of the Water of Crystallization.- 5.6.2 The Amount and Physical Properties of the Water of Crystallization.- 5.6.3 Motion of Water Molecules and Ultrasonic Anomalies.- 5.6.4 Motion of the Water of Crystallization Studied by 1H NMR.- 5.7 Band Model and Mixed Valence Model.- 5.7.1 X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS).- 5.7.2 Magnetic Properties and Electrical Conductivity.- 5.7.3 Nuclear Spin Relaxation of 195Pt Nuclei.- 5.7.4 Electron Spin Relaxation.- a) Spin-Lattice Relaxation.- b) Spin-Spin Relaxation.- 5.7.5 Neutron Diffraction.- 5.7.6 Raman Scattering.- 5.7.7 The Mixed-Valence State of Pt Ions.- 5.7.8 Comments on the Mixed-Valence Model.- 6. Properties of the Linear Chain Polymers (CH)x and (SN)x.- 6.1 Properties of (CH)X.- 6.1.1 Synthesis of (CH)x and Its Structure.- 6.1.2 One-Electron States in the Band.- 6.1.3 Solitons and the Electrical Conductivity.- 6.2 Properties of (SN)x.- 6.2.1 The Synthesis and Structure of (SN)x.- 6.2.2 Electronic Properties.- 6.2.3 Band Structure.- 6.2.4 One-Dimensionality and the Kohn Anomaly.- 7. Properties of Linear-Chain Mercury Compounds.- 7.1 Synthesis and Crystal Structure.- 7.2 Metallic Conductivity and Superconductivity.- 7.3 The One-Dimensional Lattice of Mercury Chains.- 7.3.1 One-Dimensional Liquid Mercury and Its Condensation.- 7.3.2 Mass-Density Waves.- References.