The periodic table and the physics that drives it

P Schwerdtfeger, OR Smits, P Pyykkö - Nature reviews chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Mendeleev's introduction of the periodic table of elements is one of the most important
milestones in the history of chemistry, as it brought order into the known chemical and …

The quest for superheavy elements and the limit of the periodic table

OR Smits, CE Düllmann, P Indelicato… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The borders of the periodic table of the elements and of the chart of nuclides are not set in
stone. The desire to explore the properties of atoms and their nuclei in a regime of very large …

Thermochemical electronegativities of the elements

C Tantardini, AR Oganov - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Electronegativity is a key property of the elements. Being useful in rationalizing stability,
structure and properties of molecules and solids, it has shaped much of the thinking in the …

Relativistic effects on the chemical bonding properties of the heavier elements and their compounds

A Das, U Das, AK Das - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
It is now well established that the relativistic effects strongly influence the properties of the
heavier elements, specially the heavier elements of d-and f-block and also the heavier main …

Extension of the D3 and D4 London dispersion corrections to the full actinides series

L Wittmann, I Gordiy, M Friede… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Efficient dispersion corrections are an indispensable component of modern density
functional theory, semi-empirical quantum mechanical, and even force field methods. In this …

Electron affinity of oganesson

MY Kaygorodov, LV Skripnikov, II Tupitsyn, E Eliav… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
The electron affinity (EA) of the superheavy element Og is calculated by the use of the
relativistic Fock-space coupled cluster (FSCC) and configuration interaction methods. The …

Oganesson: a noble gas element that is neither noble nor a gas

OR Smits, JM Mewes, P Jerabek… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oganesson (Og) is the last entry into the Periodic Table completing the seventh period of
elements and group 18 of the noble gases. Only five atoms of Og have been successfully …

Exploring the chemical nature of super-heavy main-group elements by means of efficient plane-wave density-functional theory

L Trombach, S Ehlert, S Grimme… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The design, implementation, and evaluation of a computationally efficient approach for
exploring the chemical nature and bulk properties of the super-heavy main-group elements …

The Lennard-Jones potential revisited: Analytical expressions for vibrational effects in cubic and hexagonal close-packed lattices

P Schwerdtfeger, A Burrows… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Analytical formulas are derived for the zero-point vibrational energy and anharmonicity
corrections of the cohesive energy and the mode Grüneisen parameter within the Einstein …

Copernicium: a relativistic noble liquid

JM Mewes, OR Smits, G Kresse… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The chemical nature and aggregate state of superheavy copernicium (Cn) have been
subject of speculation for many years. While strong relativistic effects render Cn chemically …