Selected Papers on the Periodic Table by Eric Scerri

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
The Periodic Table According to Chemistry or According to Spectroscopy......Page 24
A Recent Modification to the Form of the Periodic Table......Page 25
The Actinides• A Case Where Spectroscopy Trlumphe over Chemistry?......Page 26
Conclusion......Page 27
Literature CHed......Page 28
I INTRODUCTION......Page 29
2 HISTORICAL......Page 30
3 PRESENT STATUS AND APPLICATIONS......Page 37
4 CONCLUSIONS......Page 41
REFERENCES......Page 42
Magnets and Electrons......Page 46
Counting on Quanta......Page 48
Quantum Numbers in Question......Page 50
The Periodic Table Explained?......Page 51
Bibliography......Page 53
Paper 4. How Good Is the Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System? Journal of Chemical Education, 75: 1384-1385, 1998.......Page 54
Literature Cited......Page 55
1. Introduction......Page 56
2.1. Publication and Prediction......Page 60
2.2. Why was the Davy Medal Awarded to Mendeleev?......Page 63
2.3. Mendeleev and the Discovery of Gallium......Page 66
2.4. Grounded Confidence about Germanium?......Page 67
2.5. A Methodological Preliminary: Prediction and Prediction......Page 72
3. Brush\'s Account of the Reception of Mendeleev\'s Ideas......Page 77
3.1. Some Complications and Tensions in Brush\'s Analysis......Page 78
3.2. Does Brush\'s Evidence Really Show that the Predictive Successes Carried More Impact?......Page 82
4. The Periodic Table and the \'Periodic Law\'......Page 85
5. Evidence and the Periodic Table......Page 90
5.1. Accommodation and the Periodic Table......Page 91
5.2. Exploring Periodicity......Page 97
References......Page 99
1. Introduction.......Page 102
2. General approach of this study and ab initio calculations iu science generally.......Page 103
3. What do the terms ab initio and first principles really mean in current quantum chemistry?......Page 106
4. First the elementary approach.......Page 107
5. Transition metal configurations.......Page 108
6. How are configurations derived from the theory?......Page 109
8. Qualitative explanation of PT in terms of electrons in shells.......Page 112
9. Ab initio calculations based on wavefunctions.......Page 113
10. Density Functional Approach.......Page 114
11. Density Functional Theory in Practice.......Page 115
12. ConcJusions.......Page 116
NOTES......Page 117
REFERENCES......Page 119
Paper 7. Mendeleev\'s Legacy Chemical Heritage, Spring, pp. 22-27, 2007.......Page 123
Dual Sense of the Concept of \"Element\"......Page 126
Later Work on Triads......Page 127
Atomic Number Triads......Page 128
Conclusion......Page 129
Supporting JeE Online Material......Page 130
The Classics......Page 131
Bridging the Gaps......Page 133
Fetile Ground......Page 135
Hindsight......Page 136
References......Page 137
The Nature of the Concept of an \"Element\"......Page 139
The Left-Step Table......Page 141
Derivation of the n + t; Rule......Page 142
Recent Developments......Page 144
The Concept of \"Element\" Revisited......Page 145
A Paper by Schwarz......Page 146
Exceptions to the n + C rule......Page 147
A Possible Solution......Page 148
Conclusions......Page 150
References......Page 151