Rutherfordium (Rf)
transition-metalSolid
표준 원자량
263 u전자 배치
[Rn] 7s2 5f14 6d2녹는점
2126.85 °C끓는점
5526.85 °C밀도
2.33e+4 kg/m³산화 상태
+3, +4전기 음성도(Pauling)
해당 없음제1 이온화 에너지
6.02 eV발견 연도
1964원자 반지름
150 pm상세 정보
Rutherfordium is a synthetic transactinide element and the first member of the 6d transition-metal series. All confirmed isotopes are radioactive and short-lived, so its chemistry is studied atom by atom. Chemical experiments show behavior broadly consistent with a group 4 element, analogous to hafnium and zirconium, with the +4 oxidation state dominant in aqueous and halide systems. Relativistic effects and nuclear instability make direct measurements difficult.
Rutherfordium does not occur naturally in the Earth’s crust. Credit for the first synthesis of this element is given jointly to Albert Ghiorso and his team at the University of California in Berkeley and Georgi Flerov and his team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. The element is named for Ernest Rutherford (Fig. IUPAC.104.1), who won the Nobel Prize for developing the theory of radioactive transformations [645].
Rutherfordium is of interest in particle physics research, but it has no commercial applications. 261Rf was one of the decay products used to confirm the synthesis of copernicium in a particle accelerator experiment [634].
Rutherfordium named after Ernest Rutherford.
Scientists working at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, first reported the production of rutherfordium in 1964. They bombarded atoms of plutonium-242 with ions of neon-22, forming what they believed to be atoms of rutherfordium-260 and four free neutrons. In 1969, a group of scientists working at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, now known as the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Berkeley, California, attempted to confirm the Dubna group's discovery. Lacking the equipment needed to accelerate neon ions, the Berkeley group, led by Albert Ghiorso, bombarded atoms of californium-248 and californium-249 with ions of carbon-12 and carbon-13, producing atoms of rutherfordium-257, rutherfordium-258, rutherfordium-259 and rutherfordium-261. They were, however, unable to produce the same isotope as the Dubna group. Credit for the discovery of rutherfordium is still under debate. Rutherfordium's most stable isotope, rutherfordium-263, has a half-life of about 10 minutes and decays through spontaneous fission.
In 1964, workers at the Joint Nuclear Research Institute at Dubna (U.S.S.R.) bombarded plutonium with accelerated 113 to 115 MeV neon ions. By measuring fission tracks in a special glass with a microscope, they detected an isotope that decays by spontaneous fission. They suggested that this isotope, which had a half-life of 0.3 +/- 0.1 s might be 260-104, produced by the following reaction: 242Pu + 22Ne >260Rf +4n.
Element 104, the first transactinide element, is expected to have chemical properties similar to those of hafnium. It would, for example, form a relatively volatile compound with chlorine (a tetrachloride).
The Soviet scientists have performed experiments aimed at chemical identification, and have attempted to show that the 0.3-s activity is more volatile than that of the relatively nonvolatile actinide trichlorides. This experiment does not fulfill the test of chemically separating the new element from all others, but it provides important evidence for evaluation. Data issued by Soviet scientists reduced the half-life of the isotope they worked with from 0.3 to 0.15 s.
No macroscopic sample of rutherfordium has been prepared, and its visible appearance is unknown. Calculations generally treat it as a very heavy metallic solid under ordinary conditions, but this remains a prediction rather than an observed bulk property.
Rutherfordium has no practical use outside scientific research. It is produced in accelerator experiments to study the limits of the periodic table, transactinide nuclear stability, and the chemistry of single atoms. Individual isotopes have been used in decay-chain identification and in rapid chemical separations designed to compare group 4 behavior with zirconium and hafnium. There is no medical, industrial, structural, or consumer application for the element.
Due to the small amounts produced and its short half-life, there are currently no uses for rutherfordium outside of basic scientific research.
Rutherfordium chemistry has been inferred from very small numbers of atoms in fast gas-phase and aqueous experiments. The most important oxidation state is +4, matching its placement below hafnium. Volatile tetrachloride behavior has been studied for rutherfordium tetrachloride, RfCl₄, in comparison with zirconium tetrachloride, ZrCl₄, and hafnium tetrachloride, HfCl₄. In aqueous solution, hydrolysis, fluoride complexation, and chloride complexation indicate a hard, highly charged cation with group 4 character, although relativistic effects can alter detailed complex stability.
See more information at the Rutherfordium compound page.
The safety concern is radiological rather than chemical toxicity in ordinary handling, because only atom-scale quantities are produced. Hazards depend on the isotope and its decay products; many known isotopes decay by alpha emission, spontaneous fission, or both. Accelerator targets, collection systems, and contaminated apparatus require radiological controls, but rutherfordium itself is not encountered by the public or in commerce.
Rutherfordium has no confirmed natural environmental occurrence. Any atoms made in laboratories decay rapidly and are produced in quantities far too small to form an environmental reservoir or chemical cycle. Its environmental behavior as a bulk substance is therefore unobserved; only its predicted or atom-at-a-time chemical interactions can be compared with those of other group 4 metals.
Rutherfordium has no commodity market, no stockpiled supply, and no economic demand. Production requires heavy-ion accelerators, specialized targets, and rapid detection systems, yielding atoms or very small numbers of atoms for immediate study. Isotopes are made by nuclear reactions such as bombarding actinide targets with lighter ions, and the practical constraint is experimental access rather than raw-material value. Recycling and substitution are not relevant except in the general sense that other elements are used whenever a stable material is needed.
Made by bombarding californium-249 with beams of carbon-12 and 13, which produced an isotope with half lives of 4+ and 3 sec.
Rutherfordium is not expected to be a persistent cosmic element. Its known isotopes have half-lives far too short for primordial survival, and any atoms formed in extreme astrophysical nucleosynthesis would decay quickly into lighter nuclei. No extraterrestrial reservoir is known, and its significance in the universe is chiefly as a laboratory probe of very heavy nuclei.
- Rutherfordium was central to early naming disputes over the first transactinide elements.
- Its chemistry must often be completed before the atom decays.
- Gas-phase studies have compared RfCl₄ with the tetrachlorides of zirconium and hafnium.
- Some rutherfordium isotopes are identified through linked alpha-decay chains.
- The element is named for Ernest Rutherford.
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특성
물리적 특성
- 원자 반지름(경험값)
- 150 pm 모든 원소의 원자 반지름(경험값) 비교 →
- 밀도
- 2.33 × 104 kg/m³ 모든 원소의 밀도 비교 →
- STP에서의 상
- 고체 모든 원소의 STP에서의 상 비교 →
- 녹는점
- 2126.85 °C 모든 원소의 녹는점 비교 →
- 끓는점
- 5526.85 °C 모든 원소의 끓는점 비교 →
화학적 특성
- 전자 친화도
- 0.65 eV
- 제1 이온화 에너지
- 6.02 eV 모든 원소의 제1 이온화 에너지 비교 →
- 제2 이온화 에너지
- 14.350049 eV 모든 원소의 제2 이온화 에너지 비교 →
- 제3 이온화 에너지
- 23.840082 eV 모든 원소의 제3 이온화 에너지 비교 →
- 제4 이온화 에너지
- 31.87011 eV 모든 원소의 제4 이온화 에너지 비교 →
- 제5 이온화 에너지
- 64.00022 eV 모든 원소의 제5 이온화 에너지 비교 →
- 산화 상태
- +3, +4 모든 원소의 산화 상태 비교 →
- 원자가 전자
- 4 모든 원소의 원자가 전자 비교 →
- 전자 배치
- [Rn] 7s2 5f14 6d2
열역학적 특성
해당 없음
핵 특성
- 양성자 수
- 104 모든 원소의 양성자 수 비교 →
- 중성자 수
- 162 모든 원소의 중성자 수 비교 →
- 알려진 동위원소 수
- 16 모든 원소의 알려진 동위원소 수 비교 →
- 안정 동위원소 수
- 0 모든 원소의 안정 동위원소 수 비교 →
- 질량수(가장 안정한 동위원소)
- 267
- 가장 안정한 동위원소
- Rf-266
- 발견 연도
- 1964
존재비
해당 없음
결정 구조
해당 없음
전자 구조
- 전자껍질별 전자 수
- 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 10, 2 모든 원소의 전자껍질별 전자 수 비교 →
식별자
- CAS 등록 번호
- 53850-36-5 모든 원소의 CAS 등록 번호 비교 →
- 항 기호
- 3F2
- InChI
- InChI=1S/Rf
- InChI 키
- YGPLJIIQQIDVFJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
전자 배치 예측값
Rf: 5f¹⁴ 6d² 7s²[Rn] 5f¹⁴ 6d² 7s²1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 3d¹⁰ 4s² 4p⁶ 4d¹⁰ 5s² 5p⁶ 4f¹⁴ 5d¹⁰ 6s² 6p⁶ 5f¹⁴ 6d² 7s²원자 모형
동위원소에 따라 중성자 수, 질량, 안정성은 달라지지만, 중성 원자의 전자 배치는 달라지지 않습니다.
개략적인 원자 모형이며 실제 비율과 다릅니다.
원자 지문
방출 / 흡수 스펙트럼
동위원소 분포
안정 동위원소가 없습니다.
| 질량수 | 원자 질량(u) | 천연 존재비 | 반감기 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 262 방사성 | 262.10992 ± 0.00024 | 해당 없음 | 250 ms |
| 254 방사성 | 254.10005 ± 0.0003 | 해당 없음 | 22.9 us |
| 260 방사성 | 260.10644 ± 0.00022 | 해당 없음 | 21 ms |
| 253 방사성 | 253.10044 ± 0.00044 | 해당 없음 | 13 ms |
| 258 방사성 | 258.103428 ± 0.000034 | 해당 없음 | 12.5 ms |
상 / 상태
이유: 녹는점(2126.85 °C)보다 2101.8 °C 낮음
개략도이며 실제 비율과 다름
상전이점
밀도
표준 조건에서
표준 조건에서
원자 스펙트럼
전체 93개 중 10개를 표시합니다. 이온 전하순으로 정렬되었습니다(오름차순).
보유 에너지 준위 데이터 ?
| 이온 | 전하 | 준위 |
|---|---|---|
| Rf I | 0 | 2 |
| Rf II | +1 | 2 |
| Rf III | +2 | 2 |
| Rf IV | +3 | 2 |
| Rf V | +4 | 2 |
| Rf VI | +5 | 2 |
| Rf VII | +6 | 2 |
| Rf VIII | +7 | 2 |
| Rf IX | +8 | 2 |
| Rf X | +9 | 2 |
결정 구조 데이터 없음
화합물
동위원소 (5)
In 1969 Ghiorso, Nurmia, Harris, K.A.Y. Eskola, and P.L. Eskola of the University of California at Berkeley reported that they had positively identified two, and possibly three isotopes of Element 104. The group indicated that, after repeated attempts, they produced isotope 260104 reported by the Dubna groups in 1964.
| 질량수 | 원자 질량(u) | 천연 존재비 | 반감기 | 붕괴 방식 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 262 방사성 | 262.10992 ± 0.00024 | 해당 없음 | 250 ms | SF ≈100% | |
| 254 방사성 | 254.10005 ± 0.0003 | 해당 없음 | 22.9 us | SF ≈100%α<1.5% | |
| 260 방사성 | 260.10644 ± 0.00022 | 해당 없음 | 21 ms | SF ≈100%α ?β+ ? | |
| 253 방사성 | 253.10044 ± 0.00044 | 해당 없음 | 13 ms | SF ≈100%α ? | |
| 258 방사성 | 258.103428 ± 0.000034 | 해당 없음 | 12.5 ms | SF =95.1±1.6%α =4.9±1.6% |
확장 특성
공유 결합 반지름(확장)
- 공유 결합 반지름(Pyykkö)
- 157 pm
- 공유 결합 반지름(Pyykkö, 이중 결합)
- 140 pm
- 공유 결합 반지름(Pyykkö, 삼중 결합)
- 131 pm
번호 척도
- Mendeleev
- 46
분극률 및 분산
- 쌍극자 분극률
- 112 a.u.
- 쌍극자 분극률(불확도)
- 10 a.u.
산화 상태 분류
심화 참고 데이터
동위원소 붕괴 방식 (33)
| 동위원소 | 모드 | 세기 |
|---|---|---|
| 253 | SF | 100% |
| 253 | A | — |
| 254 | SF | 100% |
| 254 | A | 1.5% |
| 255 | A | 52.8% |
| 255 | SF | 47.2% |
| 255 | B+ | 6% |
| 256 | SF | 99.7% |
| 256 | A | 0.3% |
| 257 | A | 89.3% |
추가 데이터
Estimated Crustal Abundance
The estimated element abundance in the earth's crust.
Not Applicable
참고 문헌 (1)
- [5] Rutherfordium https://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele104.html
Estimated Oceanic Abundance
The estimated element abundance in the earth's oceans.
Not Applicable
참고 문헌 (1)
- [5] Rutherfordium https://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele104.html
참고 문헌
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