CHEMICAL STUDIES OF RUTHERFORDIUM (ELEMENT-104) .1. THIN-FILM FERROCYANIDE SURFACES FOR THE STUDY OF THE HYDROLYSIS OF RUTHERFORDIUM

Authors
BILEWICZ A SIEKIERSKI S KACHER CD GREGORICH KE LE DM STOYER NJ KADKHODAYAN B KREEK SA LANE MR SYLWESTER ER NEU MP MOHAR MF HOFFMAN DC
Citation
A. Bilewicz et al., CHEMICAL STUDIES OF RUTHERFORDIUM (ELEMENT-104) .1. THIN-FILM FERROCYANIDE SURFACES FOR THE STUDY OF THE HYDROLYSIS OF RUTHERFORDIUM, Radiochimica Acta, 75(3), 1996, pp. 121-126
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
Radiochimica Acta → ACNP
ISSN journal
00338230
Volume
75
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
121 - 126
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-8230(1996)75:3<121:CSOR(.>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The chemical properties of element 104, rutherfordium (Rf), and its gr oup 4 homologs were studied by sorption on glass support surfaces coat ed with cobalt ferrocyanide. The surface studies showed that the hydro lysis trend in the group 4 elements and the pseudogroup 4 element, Th, decreases in the order Rf > Zr approximate to Hf > Th. This unexpecte d trend was attributed to relativistic effects which predict that Rf(4 +) would be more prone to having a coordination number (CN) of 6 than 8 in aqueous solutions due to a destabilization of the 6d(5/2) shell.