Roentgenium

Roentgenium,  111Rg
General properties
Name, symbol roentgenium, Rg
Pronunciation i/rʌntˈɡɛniəm/ or /rɛntˈɡɛniəm/
runt-GEN-ee-əm or rent-GEN-ee-əm
Appearance silvery (predicted)[1]
Roentgenium in the periodic table
Au
↑
Rg
↓
(Uhp)
darmstadtium ← roentgenium → copernicium
Atomic number (Z) 111
Group, block group 11, d-block
Period period 7
Element category unknown, but probably a transition metal
Standard atomic weight (Ar) [282]
Electron configuration [Rn] 5f14 6d9 7s2 (predicted)[1][2]
per shell
 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 17, 2 (predicted)
Physical properties
Phase solid (predicted)[3]
Density near r.t. 28.7 g/cm3 (predicted)[2]
Atomic properties
Oxidation states 5, 3, 1, −1 ​(predicted)[2][4]
Ionization energies 1st: 1022.7 kJ/mol
2nd: 2074.4 kJ/mol
3rd: 3077.9 kJ/mol
(more) (all estimated)[2]
Atomic radius empirical: 138 pm (predicted)[2][4]
Covalent radius 121 pm (estimated)[5]
Miscellanea
Crystal structure

​body-centered cubic (bcc)

Body-centered cubic crystal structure for roentgenium


(predicted)[3]

CAS Number 54386-24-2
History
Naming after Wilhelm Röntgen
Discovery Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (1994)
Most stable isotopes of roentgenium
iso NA half-life DM DE (MeV) DP
282Rg[6] syn 2.1+1.4
−0.6 min		 α 9.00 278Mt
281Rg[7][8] syn 17+6
−3 s		 SF (90%)
α (10%) 277Mt
280Rg syn 3.6 s α 9.75 276Mt
279Rg syn 0.17 s α 10.37 275Mt

Roentgenium is a chemical element with symbol Rg and atomic number 111. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element (an element that can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature); the most stable known isotope, roentgenium-282, has a half-life of 2.1 minutes. Roentgenium was first created in 1994 by the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany. It is named after the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (also spelled Roentgen).

In the periodic table, it is a d-block transactinide element. It is a member of the 7th period and is placed in the group 11 elements, although no chemical experiments have been carried out to confirm that it behaves as the heavier homologue to gold in group 11 as the ninth member of the 6d series of transition metals. Roentgenium is calculated to have similar properties to its lighter homologues, copper, silver, and gold, although it may show some differences from them.

History

Roentgenium was named after the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, the discoverer of X-rays.
Backdrop for presentation of the discovery and recognition of roentgenium at GSI Darmstadt

Official discovery

Roentgenium was first synthesized by an international team led by Sigurd Hofmann at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, on December 8, 1994.[9] The team bombarded a target of bismuth-209 with accelerated nuclei of nickel-64 and detected a single atom of the isotope roentgenium-272:

209
83Bi
 + 64
28Ni
 → 272
111Rg
 + 1
0n

This reaction had previously been conducted at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna (then in the Soviet Union) in 1986, but no atoms of 272Rg had then been observed.[10] In 2001, the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP) concluded that there was insufficient evidence for the discovery at that time.[11] The GSI team repeated their experiment in 2002 and detected three more atoms.[12][13] In their 2003 report, the JWP decided that the GSI team should be acknowledged for the discovery of this element.[14]

Naming

Using Mendeleev's nomenclature for unnamed and undiscovered elements, roentgenium should be known as eka-gold. In 1979, IUPAC published recommendations according to which the element was to be called unununium (with the corresponding symbol of Uuu),[15] a systematic element name as a placeholder, until the element was discovered (and the discovery then confirmed) and a permanent name was decided on. Although widely used in the chemical community on all levels, from chemistry classrooms to advanced textbooks, the recommendations were mostly ignored among scientists in the field, who either called it "element 111", with the symbol of (111) or even simply 111.[2]

The name roentgenium (Rg) was suggested by the GSI team[16] in 2004, to honor the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the discoverer of X-rays.[16] This name was accepted by IUPAC on November 1, 2004.[16]

Isotopes

Roentgenium has no stable or naturally-occurring isotopes. Several radioactive isotopes have been synthesized in the laboratory, either by fusion of the nuclei of lighter elements or as intermediate decay products of heavier elements. Seven different isotopes of roentgenium have been reported with atomic masses 272, 274, and 278–282, two of which, roentgenium-272 and roentgenium-274, have known but unconfirmed metastable states. All of these decay through alpha decay or spontaneous fission.[17]

Stability and half-lives

List of roentgenium isotopes
Isotope
 Half-life
[17] 		Decay
mode[17] 		Discovery
year 		Reaction
272Rg 3.8 ms ? α 1994209Bi(64Ni,n)[9]
273Rg 5? ms α ? unknown —
274Rg 6.4 ms α 2004278Nh(—,α)[18]
275Rg 10? ms α ? unknown —
276Rg 100? ms α, SF ? unknown —
277Rg 1? s α, SF ? unknown —
278Rg 4.2 ms α 2006282Nh(—,α)[19]
279Rg 0.17 s α 2003287Mc(—,2α)[19]
280Rg 3.6 s α 2003288Mc(—,2α)[19]
281Rg 17+6
−3 s 		α, SF 2009293Ts(—,3α)[7][20]
282Rg 2.1+1.4
−0.6 min 		α 2009294Ts(—,3α)[20]
283Rg 10? min α, SF ? unknown —

All roentgenium isotopes are extremely unstable and radioactive; in general, the heavier isotopes are more stable than the lighter. The most stable known roentgenium isotope, 282Rg, is also the heaviest known roentgenium isotope; it has a half-life of 2.1 minutes. The isotopes 280Rg and 281Rg have also been reported to have half-lives over a second. The remaining isotopes have half-lives in the millisecond range.[17] The undiscovered isotope 287Rg has been predicted to be the most stable towards beta decay;[21] however, no known roentgenium isotope has been observed to undergo beta decay.[17] The unknown isotopes 277Rg and 283Rg are also expected to have long half-lives of 1 second and 10 minutes respectively. Before their discovery, the isotopes 278Rg, 281Rg, and 282Rg were predicted to have long half-lives of 1 second, 1 minute, and 4 minutes respectively; however, they were discovered to have shorter half-lives of 4.2 milliseconds, 17 seconds, and 2.1 minutes respectively.[17]

Predicted properties

Chemical

Roentgenium is the ninth member of the 6d series of transition metals. Since copernicium (element 112) has been shown to be a transition metal, it is expected that all the elements from 104 to 112 would form a fourth transition metal series.[22] Calculations on its ionization potentials and atomic and ionic radii are similar to that of its lighter homologue gold, thus implying that roentgenium's basic properties will resemble those of the other group 11 elements, copper, silver, and gold; however, it is also predicted to show several differences from its lighter homologues.[2]

Roentgenium is predicted to be a noble metal. Based on the most stable oxidation states of the lighter group 11 elements, roentgenium is predicted to show stable +5, +3, and −1 oxidation states, with a less stable +1 state. The +3 state is predicted to be the most stable. Roentgenium(III) is expected to be of comparable reactivity to gold(III), but should be more stable and form a larger variety of compounds. Gold also forms a somewhat stable −1 state due to relativistic effects, and roentgenium may do so as well:[2] the electron affinity of roentgenium is expected to be around 1.6 eV (37 kcal/mol), significantly lower than gold's value of 2.3 eV (53 kcal/mol), so roentgenides may not be stable or even possible.[4] The 6d orbitals are destabilized by relativistic effects and spin–orbit interactions near the end of the fourth transition metal series, thus makingthe high oxidation state roentgenium(V) more stable than its lighter homologue gold(V) (known only in one compound) as the 6d electrons participate in bonding to a greater extent. The spin-orbit interactions stabilize molecular roentgenium compounds with more bonding 6d electrons; for example, RgF−
6 is expected to be more stable than RgF−
4, which is expected to be more stable than RgF−
2. Roentgenium(I) is expected to be difficult to obtain.[2][23][24]

The probable chemistry of roentgenium has received more interest than that of the two previous elements, meitnerium and darmstadtium, as the valence s-subshells of the group 11 elements are expected to be relativistically contracted most strongly at roentgenium.[2] Calculations on the molecular compound RgH show that relativistic effects double the strength of the roentgenium–hydrogen bond, even though spin–orbit interactions also weaken it by 0.7 eV (16 kcal/mol). The compounds AuX and RgX, where X = F, Cl, Br, O, Au, or Rg, were also studied.[2][25] Rg+ is predicted to be the softest metal ion, even softer than Au+, although there is disagreement on whether it would behave as an acid or a base.[26][27] In aqueous solution, Rg+ would form the aqua ion [Rg(H2O)2]+, with an Rg–O bond distance of 207.1 pm. It is also expected to form Rg(I) complexes with ammonia, phosphine, and hydrogen sulfide.[27]

Physical and atomic

Roentgenium is expected to be a solid under normal conditions and to crystallize in the body-centered cubic structure, unlike its lighter congeners which crystallize in the face-centered cubic structure, due to its being expected to have different electron charge densities from them.[3] It should be a very heavy metal with a density of around 28.7 g/cm3; in comparison, the densest known element that has had its density measured, osmium, has a density of only 22.61 g/cm3. This results from roentgenium's high atomic weight, the lanthanide and actinide contractions, and relativistic effects, although production of enough roentgenium to measure this quantity would be impractical, and the sample would quickly decay.[2]

The stable group 11 elements, copper, silver, and gold, all have an outer electron configuration nd10(n+1)s1. For each of these elements, the first excited state of their atoms has a configuration nd9(n+1)s2. Due to spin-orbit coupling between the d electrons, this state is split into a pair of energy levels. For copper, the difference in energy between the ground state and lowest excited state causes the metal to appear reddish. For silver, the energy gap widens and it becomes silvery. However, as the atomic number increases, the excited levels are stabilized by relativistic effects and in gold the energy gap decreases again and it appears gold. For roentgenium, calculations indicate that the 6d97s2 level is stabilized to such an extent that it becomes the ground state and the 6d107s1 level becomes the first excited state. The resulting energy difference between the new ground state and the first excited state is similar to that of silver and roentgenium is expected to be silvery in appearance.[1] The atomic radius of roentgenium is expected to be around 138 pm.[2]

Experimental chemistry

Unambiguous determination of the chemical characteristics of roentgenium has yet to have been established[28] due to the low yields of reactions that produce roentgenium isotopes.[2] For chemical studies to be carried out on a transactinide, at least four atoms must be produced, the half-life of the isotope used must be at least 1 second, and the rate of production must be at least one atom per week.[22] Even though the half-life of 281Rg, the most stable known roentgenium isotope, is 26 seconds, long enough to perform chemical studies, another obstacle is the need to increase the rate of production of roentgenium isotopes and allow experiments to carry on for weeks or months so that statistically significant results can be obtained. Separation and detection must be carried out continuously to separate out the roentgenium isotopes and automated systems can then experiment on the gas-phase and solution chemistry of roentgenium as the yields for heavier elements are predicted to be smaller than those for lighter elements. However, the experimental chemistry of roentgenium has not received as much attention as that of the heavier elements from copernicium to livermorium,[2][28][29] despite early interest in theoretical predictions due to the maximizing of relativistic effects on the ns subshell in group 11 occurring at roentgenium.[2]

See also

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