Mercury Is a Transition Metal: The First Experimental Evidence for HgF4

2007/09/26 by Xuefang Wang, Lester Andrews, Sebastian Riedel +1 · 48 citations
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure #Mercury (programming language) #Chemistry #Transition metal #Physics #Organic chemistry #Computer science

paper · doi:10.1002/ange.200703710

published in Angewandte Chemie 119(44), 8523-8527 (Wiley)

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Abstract

Hg als echtes Übergangsmetall: Die Elemente der Gruppe 12 gelten allgemein als Postübergangsmetalle mit gefüllten d-Schalen. Rechnungen sagen jedoch voraus, dass d8-HgF4 (siehe die Elektronenlokalisierungsfunktion) stabil ist. IR-Spektroskopie in festen Neon- und Argonmatrices liefert erste experimentelle Hinweise auf HgF4. Als HgIV wäre Quecksilber ein echtes Übergangsmetall, das seine 5d-Orbitale vollständig zur Bindung nutzt.

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