1/18/13 Periodic Proper.es of the Elements How Orbitals Fill The Basis of the Periodic Table Trends in Atomic Proper.es of Elements Mendeleev is given credit for the Periodic Table The following slides we shall skip through fast because... • ...they were stolen from the internet and • I cannot find their source. • But the informaon is useful! 1 1/18/13 The History of the Modern Periodic Table During the nineteenth century, chemists began to categorize the elements according to similarities in their physical and chemical properties. The end result of these studies was our modern periodic table. Johann Dobereiner In 1829, he classified some elements into groups of three, which he called triads. The elements in a triad had similar chemical properties and orderly physical properties. (ex. Cl, Br, I and Ca, Sr, Ba) Model of triads 1780 - 1849 2 1/18/13 John Newlands In 1863, he suggested that elements be arranged in “octaves” because he noticed (after arranging the elements in order of increasing atomic mass) that certain properties repeated every 8th element. Law of Octaves 1838 - 1898 John Newlands Newlands' claim to see a repeating pattern was met with savage ridicule on its announcement. His classification of the elements, he was told, was as arbitrary as putting them in alphabetical order and his paper was rejected for publication by the Chemical Society. 1838 - 1898 Law of Octaves John Newlands His law of octaves failed beyond the element calcium. WHY? Would his law of octaves work today with the first 20 elements? 1838 - 1898 Law of Octaves 3 1/18/13 Dmitri Mendeleev In 1869 he published a table of the elements organized by increasing atomic mass. 1834 - 1907 Lothar Meyer At the same time, he published his own table of the elements organized by increasing atomic mass. 1830 - 1895 • Both Mendeleev and Meyer arranged the elements in order of increasing atomic mass. • Both left vacant spaces where unknown elements should fit. So why is Mendeleev called the “father of the modern periodic table” and not Meyer, or both? 4 1/18/13 Mendeleev... • stated that if the atomic weight of an element caused it to be placed in the wrong group, then the weight must be wrong. (He corrected the atomic masses of Be, In, and U) • was so confident in his table that he used it to predict the physical properties of three elements that were yet unknown. After the discovery of these unknown elements between 1874 and 1885, and the fact that Mendeleev’s predictions for Sc, Ga, and Ge were amazingly close to the actual values, his table was generally accepted. However, in spite of Mendeleev’s great achievement, problems arose when new elements were discovered and more accurate atomic weights determined. By looking at our modern periodic table, can you identify what problems might have caused chemists a headache? Ar and K Co and Ni Te and I Th and Pa 5 1/18/13 Henry Moseley In 1913, through his work with X-rays, he determined the actual nuclear charge (atomic number) of the elements*. He rearranged the elements in order of increasing atomic number. *“There is in the atom a fundamental quantity which increases by regular steps as we pass from each element to the next. This quantity can only be the charge on the central positive nucleus.” 1887 - 1915 Henry Moseley His research was halted when the British government sent him to serve as a foot soldier in WWI. He was killed in the fighting in Gallipoli by a sniper’s bullet, at the age of 28. Because of this loss, the British government later restricted its scientists to noncombatant duties during WWII. Glenn T. Seaborg After co-discovering 10 new elements, in 1944 he moved 14 elements out of the main body of the periodic table to their current location below the Lanthanide series. These became known as the Actinide series. 1912 - 1999 6 1/18/13 Glenn T. Seaborg He is the only person to have an element named after him while still alive. "This is the greatest honor ever bestowed upon me - even better, I think, than winning the Nobel Prize." 1912 - 1999 Here is a simple periodic table... Comments... • This is an older style table. • The rows are called “periods.” • The columns are “families” or “groups.” – Type A: representave – Type B: transi.on – The guys at the boSom are inner transi)on elements. 7 1/18/13 Elements in Columns Have Similar Properes • This is especially true of type A (representave) elements. • But, there are changes in reac.vity, etc., as one goes down a column. • This link gives group IA as an eXample... hSp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft4E1eCUItI • More about ver.cal trends later! Looking at the rows... • The rows are called periods. • How they fill gives insight into the atomic structures. • In par.cular, we shall eXamine the idea of electron configura)ons. Some Points... • As just stated, rows of the periodic table are called periods. • These have the following lengths: o 2 o 8 o 18 o 32 8 1/18/13 Look at these numbers in detail... • 2 = 2 X 12 • 8 = 2 X 22 • 18 = 2 X 32 • 32 = 2 X 42 • This gives some insight into quantum numbers! In the last chapter we saw... • 3 quantum numbers, n, l, and ml. • For each value of n we have n2 orbitals. • We play some number games here: vn = 1 → 1 orbital vn = 2 → 4 orbitals (4 = 1 + 3) vn = 3 → 9 orbitals (9 = 1 + 3 + 5) vn = 4 → 16 orbitals (16 = 1 + 3 + 5 + 7) • These are all ½ the lengths of the periods! What’s wrong? Solu.on to this problem... • H has just one electron. • The Schrödinger equaon seen earlier needed another quantum number to handle mul.- electron atoms. (Technical detail: This comes naturally if relavity included.) • This new quantum number is ms, the electron spin. This has values of = +1/2 and -1/2. • The physical eXplanaon is lee for lecture! 9 1/18/13 Some Pictures of Spin Schemac Picture Language oen used: Spin up, Spin down Spin +1/2, Spin -1/2 α β |+ > |- > We observe spin states with a magne.c field quite oeen Spins precess about the magne.c field... 10 1/18/13 Other depic.ons of spin Electron spin discovered in the Stern- Gerlach EXperiment The Guys... Oo Stern Walter Gerlach 11 1/18/13 Effect on energy levels... Single Electron Mul'ple Electrons (Schrödinger Produces Degeneracies) (Degeneracies Lied!) Atomic Orbitals & the Pauli EXclusion Principle • Pauli principle: no two electrons in the same atom can have the same four quantum numbers. • This means, only two atoms/atomic orbital. • Orbitals fill in order of increasing energy (part of the AuEau principle—more later!). • E(s orbital) < E(p) < E(d) < E(f), for a given value of n. Some more guys... Wolfgang Pauli Pauli & Bohr Studying Spin 12 1/18/13 Ordering Changes Caused by Shielding/Penetraon Shielding Penentra'on An alternate view via radial distribu.on func.ons... Orbital Filling: The AuEau Principle Niels Bohr Friedrich Hund 13 1/18/13 The AuEau Principle • Electrons fill atoms in order of increasing orbital energy. q1s 2s 2p 3s 3p 4s 3d 4p 5s 4d 5p 6s, etc. • Degenerate orbitals fill so as to maXimize the number of parallel electron spins. qThis is Hund’s rule! Order of filling some.mes visualized as follows: Filling Atomic Orbitals Fairly Simple • We look at the first few elements. • note that we are comparing a) Electron configuraons & b) Orbital diagrams. 14 1/18/13 Elements 3 – 10... notaonal Shortcut • We oeen write in CORE electrons as their INERT GAS SHELLS. • EXamples: – na as [ne]3s1 instead of 1s22s22p63s1 – Rb as [Kr]5s1 instead of a really long mess! • We see the first 18 elements to the right... The periodic table shows how we can think in terms of s, p, d, and f blocks... 15 1/18/13 One thing should be obvious... you can construct an electron configuraon directly from the periodic table (usually)! Atoms take on electrons in an orderly manner— usually but irregulari.es can occur. Do you see any here? A corollary that follows from Hund’s rule & AuEau... • Half-filled subshells are par.cularly stable. • Fully-filled subshells are par.cular stable. • What appears to be an anomaly really is not! 16 1/18/13 Atoms-first Viewpoint Here... • Electronic configuraons build atoms. • Atoms with similar configuraons are similar in properes. • The periodic table and configuraons are inmately related. • In the neXt few slides, we shall show a few of these happy families of elements. The most metallic of the metals... AlKali Metals AlKaline Earth Metals The most noXious and snobbiest elements... The Halogens The Noble Metals 17 1/18/13 PreSy Pictures of the Halogens Fluorine Cl, Br, and I One last family • The last family we list is the chalcogens. • Somemes, oxygen is lee out of the group. • The group portrait is to the right... The black sheep of the families • The elements in the 2nd row of the periodic table oeen have quite different proper.es than the ones below them. • The elements to watch here are Li, Be, B, C, n, O, and F. • Why this happens will be eXplained later. But, for now: Beware of the 2nd row! 18 1/18/13 notable things about the eXcep.ons... • Li reacts directly with n2. no other element does. • Be is a deadly poison. Mg and Ca are nontoXic and the others are mildly toXic in this family.