Mendelevium (Md)
actinideSolid
Peso atomico standard
[258]Configurazione elettronica
[Rn] 7s2 5f13Punto di fusione
826,85 °CPunto di ebollizione
N/DDensità
1,03e+4 kg/m³Stati di ossidazione
+2, +3Elettronegatività (Pauling)
1,3Energia di ionizzazione (1ª)
6,58 eVAnno della scoperta
1955Raggio atomico
N/DDettagli
Mendelevium is a synthetic actinide and the first element that was initially identified one atom at a time. All known isotopes are radioactive, and none is present in nature in measurable primordial amounts. Its chemistry is dominated by the +3 oxidation state, broadly resembling neighboring late actinides and lanthanides, with a distinctive accessible +2 state under reducing conditions. Work on mendelevium is limited by very small samples and short half-lives.
Mendelevium does not occur naturally in the Earth’s crust. It was first synthesized in 1955 by Glenn T. Seaborg and his team at the University of California using the reactions 253Es (4He, n) 256Md and 253Es (4He, 2n) 255Md. Mendelevium is named for the Russian scientist, Dmitri Mendeleev (Fig. IUPAC.101.1), who developed the Periodic Table of the chemical elements [636], [637]. There are no applications for isotopes of mendelevium aside from scientific research.
Experiments seem to show that the element possesses a moderately stable dipositive (II) oxidation state in addition to the tripositive (III) oxidation state, which is characteristic of the actinide elements.
Mendelevium was first produced by Stanley G. Thompson, Glenn T. Seaborg, Bernard G. Harvey, Gregory R. Choppin and Albert Ghiorso working at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1955. They bombarded atoms of einsteinium-253 with helium ions using a device known as a cyclotron. This produced atoms of mendelevium-256, an isotope with a half-life of about 77 minutes, and a free neutron. Mendelevium's most stable isotope, mendelevium-258, has a half-life of about 51.5 days. It decays into einsteinium-254 through alpha decay or decays through spontaneous fission.
Mendelevium is named after Dmitri Mendeleev. It is the ninth transuranium element of the actinide series discovered. It was first identified by Ghiorso, Harvey, Choppin, Thompson, and Seaborg in early in 1955 during the bombardment of the isotope 253Es with helium ions in the Berkeley 60-inch cyclotron. The isotope produced was 256Md, which has a half-life of 76 min. This first identification was notable in that 256Md was synthesized on a one-atom-at-a-time basis.
No macroscopic sample of mendelevium has been isolated, so its real bulk appearance is unknown. A metallic solid is expected by periodic trends, but color, texture, density, and other ordinary bulk properties have not been directly measured.
Mendelevium has no practical use outside scientific research. Its isotopes are produced for nuclear-chemistry studies, tracer-scale separation experiments, and investigations of actinide electronic structure and redox behavior. Historically, mendelevium was important in demonstrating that new elements could be discovered and chemically characterized from only a few atoms. It is not used in medicine, industry, consumer products, or power generation.
Since only small amounts of mendelevium have ever been produced, it currently has no uses outside of basic scientific research.
256Md has been used to elucidate some of the chemical properties of mendelevium in aqueous solution.
Mendelevium chemistry has been studied in solution and on surfaces at tracer scale. The Md³⁺ ion is the most stable aqueous form and behaves much like a heavy trivalent actinide. The Md²⁺ ion can be produced by reduction and is unusually important for identifying mendelevium relative to many neighboring actinides. Simple compounds such as mendelevium(III) chloride, MdCl₃, and mendelevium(III) fluoride, MdF₃, are inferred or studied only in minute quantities; no bulk compound chemistry exists.
See more information at the Mendelevium compound page.
The main hazard from mendelevium is ionizing radiation, with risk depending strongly on isotope, activity, chemical form, and containment. The longest-lived isotope, ²⁵⁸Md, has a half-life of about 51 days, while many others decay much faster. Amounts normally handled are extremely small, but work requires specialized radiochemical facilities to prevent contamination and external or internal exposure.
Mendelevium has no significant natural environmental cycle. Any environmental presence would come from specialized nuclear research or decay chains in artificial material and would involve vanishingly small quantities. Because it is radioactive and produced atom by atom or in tracer amounts, its environmental chemistry is inferred mainly from actinide behavior rather than observed field distribution.
Mendelevium is not a traded commodity and has no commercial supply chain. It is made in high-flux reactors or particle accelerators by neutron capture and charged-particle nuclear reactions involving heavy actinide targets, followed by rapid radiochemical separation. Production yields are extremely small, often atom-scale to tracer-scale, and are constrained by target availability, irradiation time, isotope half-life, and the need for specialized laboratories. There is no meaningful recycling market or industrial substitution issue because demand is confined to research.
Made by bombarding einsteinium with helium ions.
Mendelevium is not expected to have appreciable cosmic abundance. Its isotopes have half-lives far too short to survive since stellar nucleosynthesis or Solar System formation. It may be formed transiently in extreme neutron-rich events or in artificial nuclear reactions, but any naturally produced atoms would decay quickly and would not accumulate in planets, meteorites, or interstellar matter.
- Mendelevium was named for Dmitri Mendeleev, the developer of the periodic table.
- The first identification used only about a few atoms produced by bombarding einsteinium.
- Its accessible +2 state is a key diagnostic feature in radiochemical separations.
- ²⁵⁶Md has been used in atom-at-a-time chemical studies despite its short half-life.
- No weighing, casting, or visual inspection of elemental mendelevium has been possible.
Immagini
Proprietà
Fisiche
- Raggio di van der Waals
- 246 pm Confronta Raggio di van der Waals di tutti gli elementi →
- Densità
- 1,03 × 104 kg/m³ Confronta Densità di tutti gli elementi →
- Fase in condizioni STP
- Solido Confronta Fase in condizioni STP di tutti gli elementi →
- Punto di fusione
- 826,85 °C Confronta Punto di fusione di tutti gli elementi →
Chimiche
- Elettronegatività (Pauling)
- 1,3 Confronta Elettronegatività (Pauling) di tutti gli elementi →
- Affinità elettronica
- 0,997 eV
- Energia di ionizzazione (1ª)
- 6,58 eV Confronta Energia di ionizzazione (1ª) di tutti gli elementi →
- Energia di ionizzazione (2ª)
- 12,400043 eV Confronta Energia di ionizzazione (2ª) di tutti gli elementi →
- Energia di ionizzazione (3ª)
- 24,300084 eV Confronta Energia di ionizzazione (3ª) di tutti gli elementi →
- Energia di ionizzazione (4ª)
- 40,000138 eV Confronta Energia di ionizzazione (4ª) di tutti gli elementi →
- Energia di ionizzazione (5ª)
- 54,100186 eV Confronta Energia di ionizzazione (5ª) di tutti gli elementi →
- Stati di ossidazione
- +2, +3 Confronta Stati di ossidazione di tutti gli elementi →
- Elettroni di valenza
- 3 Confronta Elettroni di valenza di tutti gli elementi →
- Configurazione elettronica
- [Rn] 7s2 5f13
Termodinamiche
- Calore di sublimazione
- 4,197544 eV
- Calore di atomizzazione
- 4,197544 eV
Nucleari
- Protoni
- 101 Confronta Protoni di tutti gli elementi →
- Neutroni
- 157 Confronta Neutroni di tutti gli elementi →
- Isotopi noti
- 19 Confronta Isotopi noti di tutti gli elementi →
- Isotopi stabili
- 0 Confronta Isotopi stabili di tutti gli elementi →
- Numero di massa (isotopo più stabile)
- 258
- Isotopo più stabile
- Md-258
- Anno della scoperta
- 1955
Abbondanza
N/D
Struttura cristallina
N/D
Struttura elettronica
- Elettroni per guscio
- 2, 8, 18, 32, 31, 8, 2 Confronta Elettroni per guscio di tutti gli elementi →
Identificativi
- Numero CAS
- 7440-11-1 Confronta Numero CAS di tutti gli elementi →
- Simbolo di termine
- 2F°7/2
- InChI
- InChI=1S/Md
- Chiave InChI
- MQVSLOYRCXQRPM-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Configurazione elettronica Misurato
Md: 5f¹³ 7s²[Rn] 5f¹³ 7s²1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 3d¹⁰ 4s² 4p⁶ 4d¹⁰ 5s² 5p⁶ 4f¹⁴ 5d¹⁰ 6s² 6p⁶ 5f¹³ 7s²Modello atomico
Gli isotopi modificano il numero di neutroni, la massa e la stabilità — non la configurazione elettronica di un atomo neutro.
Modello atomico schematico, non in scala.
Impronta atomica
Spettro di emissione / assorbimento
Distribuzione isotopica
Nessun isotopo stabile.
| Numero di massa | Massa atomica (u) | Abbondanza naturale | Emivita |
|---|---|---|---|
| 256 Radioattivo | 256,09389 ± 0,00013 | N/D | 77.7 minuti |
| 250 Radioattivo | 250,08441 ± 0,00032 | N/D | 54 secondi |
| 258 Radioattivo | 258,0984315 ± 0,000005 | N/D | 51.59 giorni |
| 261 Radioattivo | 261,10583 ± 0,00062 | N/D | 40 minuti |
| 260 Radioattivo | 260,10365 ± 0,00034 | N/D | 27.8 giorni |
Fase / Stato
Motivo: 801,9 °C sotto il punto di sublimazione (826,85 °C)
Schema non in scala
Punti di transizione di fase
Energie di transizione
Energia necessaria per sublimare 1 mol al punto di sublimazione
Densità
In condizioni standard
In condizioni standard
Spettri atomici
Sono visualizzati 10 di 101. Ordinamento per carica ionica crescente.
Livelli disponibili ?
| Ione | Carica | Livelli |
|---|---|---|
| Md I | 0 | 2 |
| Md II | +1 | 2 |
| Md III | +2 | 2 |
| Md IV | +3 | 2 |
| Md V | +4 | 2 |
| Md VI | +5 | 2 |
| Md VII | +6 | 2 |
| Md VIII | +7 | 2 |
| Md IX | +8 | 2 |
| Md X | +9 | 2 |
Dati sulla struttura cristallina non disponibili
Raggi ionici
| Carica | Coordinazione | Spin | Raggio |
|---|---|---|---|
| +3 | 9 | N/D | 109.5 pm |
Composti
Isotopi (5)
Fourteen isotopes are now recognized. 258Md has a half-life of 2 months. This isotope has been produced by the bombardment of an isotope of einsteinium with ions of helium. Eventually enough 258Md should be made to determine its physical properties.
| Numero di massa | Massa atomica (u) | Abbondanza naturale | Emivita | Modalità di decadimento | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 256 Radioattivo | 256,09389 ± 0,00013 | N/D | 77.7 minuti | β+ =90.8±0.7%α =9.2±0.7%SF<3% | |
| 250 Radioattivo | 250,08441 ± 0,00032 | N/D | 54 secondi | β+ =93.0±0.8%α =7.0±0.8%β+SF =0.026±1.5% | |
| 258 Radioattivo | 258,0984315 ± 0,000005 | N/D | 51.59 giorni | α ≈100%β+<0.0015% β-<0.0015% | |
| 261 Radioattivo | 261,10583 ± 0,00062 | N/D | 40 minuti | α ? | |
| 260 Radioattivo | 260,10365 ± 0,00034 | N/D | 27.8 giorni | SF ≈100%α<5% ε<5% |
Proprietà estese
Raggi covalenti (dati estesi)
- Raggio covalente (Pyykkö)
- 173 pm
- Raggio covalente (Pyykkö, legame doppio)
- 139 pm
Raggi di van der Waals
- UFF
- 327,4 pm
Scale di numerazione
- Mendeleev
- 38
- Pettifor
- 36
- Glawe
- 45
Scale di elettronegatività
- Ghosh
- 0
Polarizzabilità e dispersione
- Polarizzabilità dipolare
- 109 a.u.
- Polarizzabilità dipolare (inc.)
- 20 a.u.
Transizioni di fase e allotropi
| Punto di fusione | 1100,15 K |
Categorie degli stati di ossidazione
Dati di riferimento avanzati
Dettaglio dei raggi cristallini (1)
| Carica | CN | Spin | rcrystal (pm) | Origine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | IX | — | 123,5 |
Modalità di decadimento degli isotopi (45)
| Isotopo | Modalità | Intensità |
|---|---|---|
| 244 | A | 100% |
| 244 | B+ | — |
| 244 | B+SF | 14% |
| 245 | A | 100% |
| 245 | B+ | — |
| 246 | A | 100% |
| 247 | A | 100% |
| 247 | SF | 0,1% |
| 248 | B+ | 80% |
| 248 | A | 20% |
Dati aggiuntivi
Estimated Crustal Abundance
The estimated element abundance in the earth's crust.
Not Applicable
Riferimenti (1)
- [5] Mendelevium https://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele101.html
Estimated Oceanic Abundance
The estimated element abundance in the earth's oceans.
Not Applicable
Riferimenti (1)
- [5] Mendelevium https://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele101.html
Riferimenti
(9)
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