Is Eka‐Mercury (Element 112) a Group 12 Metal?
2007/01/26 by Nicola Gaston, Ingo Opahle, H. W. Gäggeler +1 · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Chemistry · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds #Mercury (programming language) #Cadmium #Relativistic quantum chemistry #Chemistry #Metal #Zinc #Main group element #Semiconductor #Computational chemistry #Inorganic chemistry #Atomic physics #Physics #Transition metal #Organic chemistry #Quantum mechanics #Catalysis
paper · doi:10.1002/anie.200604262
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Abstract
Super heavy: According to relativistic Dirac–Kohn–Sham calculations, eka-mercury (element 112) is a semiconductor in the solid state (see band structure; red: filled bands, blue: empty bands). In the absence of relativistic effects, condensed eka-mercury would be a hexagonal close-packed metal similar to zinc and cadmium.
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