Pioneering experiments on the chemical properties of element 113

Adsorption of the astatine species on a gold surface: A relativistic density functional theory study

“…Hence, after the successful chemical characterization of elemental copernicium [5] (Cn, Z = 112) and flerovium [6] (Fl, Z = 114), nihonium (Nh, Z = 113) increasingly catches the chemist's interest. First experimental results have been recently obtained at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reaction in Dubna, Russia [7,8].…”

Advances in chemical investigations of the heaviest elements

“…While looking at possible chemical experiments with the heaviest known elements, one should not forget about the fact, that so far no chemical studies of elements Mt, Ds, and Rg have been conducted, even though isotopes with half-lives >1 s are already known. Also, results on the chemical properties of element 113 are not convincing so far [14,17].…”

Superheavy element chemistry at GARIS

“…The performance of MDG and FSE was investigated in the extraction system of HNO 3 /tri-n-octylamine in toluene using 92,94m Tc and 181 Re produced in the nat Mo(d,xn) and nat W(d,xn) reactions, respectively, at the RIKEN AVF cyclotron [27]. It was found that the extraction equilibrium of Tc and Re in 1 M HNO 3 can be obtained with a 0.5-mm i.d. × 40-cm capillary at a flow rate of 1 ml min −1 for both aqueous and organic solutions.…”

“…Thus, rapid and efficient radiochemical procedures must be devised. So far, by coupling a gas-or liquid-chromatography apparatus to a target/recoilcatcher chamber through a gas-jet transport line, chemical properties of SHEs have been investigated for elements 104 (Rf) to 108 (Hs), and recently elements 112 (Cn) to 114 (Fl) [1][2][3]. At the same time, these successful experiments have definitely demonstrated the limitations of the conventional gas-jet technique just behind the target.…”