Chemistry of Radioactive Elements

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Department of Nuclear Chemistry

Synopsis:

The lecture provides an in-depth discussion of the chemical properties of all known radioactive elements, including the group of pre-uranium elements, actinides, and transactinides.

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Syllabus of lectures:

Fundamentals of nuclear chemistry

Definitions, classification; technetium

Promethium, astatine, francium

Polonium, radon

Radium; actinide theory

Actinium, thorium, protactinium

Uranium

Neptunium, plutonium, americium

Curium, berkelium, californium; synthesis of transuranic elements

Einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium

Chemistry of individual atoms; placement of transactinides in the periodic table

Rutherfordium, dubnium, seaborgium, bohrium, hassium, meitnerium

Darmstadtium to oganesson

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Study Objective:

In this course, students will acquire knowledge primarily about the nuclear properties as well as the inorganic and analytical chemistry of all radioactive elements, thereby building upon and applying their existing knowledge.

Study materials:

Povinná:

Schädel, M., Shaughnessy D. (2014). The Chemistry of Superheavy Elements. Springer-Verlag.

Morss, L., Edelstein, N.M., Fuger, J., Katz, J.J. (2006) The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements, Vol 1-5, Springer.

Doporučená:

Edelstein, N.M, Fuger, J, Morss, L.R. (2011). The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements. Springer.

Zvára, I. (2008). The Inorganic Radiochemistry of Heavy Elements. Springer Science.

Note:

Contact: MS Teams, LMS moodle, e-mail.

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Učitelství chemie pro střední školy (compulsory course in the program)