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Götz M, Yakushev A, Götz S, Di Nitto A, Düllmann CE, Asai M, Kindler B, Krier J, Lommel B, Nagame Y, Sato TK, Suzuki H, Tomitsuka T, Tokoi K, Toyoshima A, Tsukada K. Application of a novel gas phase synthesis approach to carbonyl complexes of accelerator-produced 5d transition metals. RADIOCHIM ACTA 2021. [DOI: 10.1515/ract-2021-1028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In 2014 the first synthesis of a transactinide carbonyl complex – seaborgium hexacarbonyl – was reported. This was achieved in gas-phase chemical experiments in a beam-free environment behind the recoil separator GARIS. Extending this work to heavier elements requires more efficient techniques to synthesize carbonyl complexes as production rates of transactinide elements drop with increasing atomic number. A novel approach was thus conceived, which retains the benefit of a beam-free environment but avoids the physical preseparation step. The latter reduces the yields for products of asymmetric reactions such as those used for the synthesis of suitable isotopes of Sg, Bh, Hs and Mt. For this a series of experiments with accelerator-produced radioisotopes of the lighter homologues W, Re and Os was carried out at the tandem accelerator of JAEA Tokai, Japan. A newly developed double-chamber system, which allows for a decoupled recoil ion thermalization and chemical complex formation, was used, which avoids the low-efficiency physical preseparation step. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of this newly developed method using accelerator-produced short-lived radioisotopes of the 5d homologues of the early transactinides.
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- Michael Götz
- Department of Chemistry – TRIGA Site , Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , 55128 Mainz , Germany
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research , 64291 Darmstadt , Germany
- Helmholtz Institute Mainz , 55099 Mainz , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry – TRIGA Site , Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , 55128 Mainz , Germany
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research , 64291 Darmstadt , Germany
- Helmholtz Institute Mainz , 55099 Mainz , Germany
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- Physics Department Ettore Pancini , University of Naples Federico II , 80126 Naples , Italy
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- Department of Chemistry – TRIGA Site , Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , 55128 Mainz , Germany
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research , 64291 Darmstadt , Germany
- Helmholtz Institute Mainz , 55099 Mainz , Germany
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency , Tokai-mura , Ibaraki 319-1111 , Japan
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- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research , 64291 Darmstadt , Germany
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- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research , 64291 Darmstadt , Germany
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- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research , 64291 Darmstadt , Germany
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency , Tokai-mura , Ibaraki 319-1111 , Japan
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency , Tokai-mura , Ibaraki 319-1111 , Japan
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency , Tokai-mura , Ibaraki 319-1111 , Japan
- Ibaraki University , Mito , Ibaraki 310-8512 , Japan
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency , Tokai-mura , Ibaraki 319-1111 , Japan
- Osaka University , Suita , Osaka 565-0871 , Japan
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency , Tokai-mura , Ibaraki 319-1111 , Japan
- Osaka University , Suita , Osaka 565-0871 , Japan
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency , Tokai-mura , Ibaraki 319-1111 , Japan
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Eichler R, Asai M, Brand H, Chiera N, Di Nitto A, Dressler R, Düllmann C, Even J, Fangli F, Goetz M, Haba H, Hartmann W, Jäger E, Kaji D, Kanaya J, Kaneya Y, Khuyagbaatar J, Kindler B, Komori Y, Kraus B, Kratz J, Krier J, Kudou Y, Kurz N, Miyashita S, Morimoto K, Morita K, Murakami M, Nagame Y, Ooe K, Piguet D, Sato N, Sato T, Steiner J, Steinegger P, Sumita T, Takeyama M, Tanaka K, Tomitsuka T, Toyoshima A, Tsukada K, Türler A, Usoltsev I, Wakabayashi Y, Wang Y, Wiehl N, Wittwer Y, Yakushev A, Yamaki S, Yano S, Yamaki S, Qin Z. Complex chemistry with complex compounds. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2016. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201613107005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The chemistry of superheavy elements - or transactinides from their position in the Periodic Table - is summarized. After giving an overview over historical developments, nuclear aspects about synthesis of neutron-rich isotopes of these elements, produced in hot-fusion reactions, and their nuclear decay properties are briefly mentioned. Specific requirements to cope with the one-atom-at-a-time situation in automated chemical separations and recent developments in aqueous-phase and gas-phase chemistry are presented. Exciting, current developments, first applications, and future prospects of chemical separations behind physical recoil separators (“pre-separator”) are discussed in detail. The status of our current knowledge about the chemistry of rutherfordium (Rf, element 104), dubnium (Db, element 105), seaborgium (Sg, element 106), bohrium (Bh, element 107), hassium (Hs, element 108), copernicium (Cn, element 112), and element 114 is discussed from an experimental point of view. Recent results are emphasized and compared with empirical extrapolations and with fully-relativistic theoretical calculations, especially also under the aspect of the architecture of the Periodic Table.
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- M. Schädel
- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan / GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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Türler A, Pershina V. Advances in the Production and Chemistry of the Heaviest Elements. Chem Rev 2013; 113:1237-312. [DOI: 10.1021/cr3002438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Andreas Türler
- Laboratory
of Radiochemistry
and Environmental Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
- Laboratory of Radiochemistry
and Environmental Chemistry, Department Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse
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In recent years, significant progress in the field of superheavy element research has been achieved thanks to a novel combination of techniques from different fields. This “physical preseparation” approach includes the coupling of an ancillary setup – typically a chemistry apparatus or a counting setup – to a physical recoil separator. This latter preseparator removes unwanted nuclear reaction products as well as the intense heavy-ion beam associated with superheavy element experiments and thus isolates the evaporation residues of the nuclear fusion reactions. These are guided to the separators's focal plane, where they are extracted and available for further transport to external setups, e.g., by a gas-jet. In this overview, the development of physical preseparation is described, and experimental results from nuclear chemistry and physics that were achieved with “preseparated” isotopes are summarized, with an emphasis on results relevant for superheavy element research. The covered topics range from chemical studies in the liquid as well as in the gas phase, the measurement of nuclear decay properties and of atomic masses. Preseparation was already shown to be a very powerful approach in these studies and promises to allow further progress in superheavy element research.
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The experimental techniques developed to perform rapid chemical separations of the heaviest elements in the aqueous phase are presented. In general, these include transport of the nuclear reaction products to a separation device by the gas-jet technique and dissolution in an aqueous solution containing inorganic ligands for complex formation. The complexes are chemically characterized by a partition method which can be liquid–liquid extraction, ion-exchange- or reversed-phase extraction chromatography. The separated fractions are quickly evaporated to dryness for the preparation of samples for α-particle spectroscopy. Comments are given on the special situation in which chemistry has to be studied with single atoms. Theoretical predictions of chemical properties are compared to the presently known chemical behaviour of rutherfordium, Rf (element 104), dubnium, Db (element 105), seaborgium, Sg (element 106), and hassium, Hs (element 108) and to that of their lighter homologs in the Periodic Table in order to assess the role of relativistic effects in the chemistry of the heaviest elements.
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Düllmann CE. Superheavy elements at GSI: a broad research program with element 114 in the focus of physics and chemistry. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1524/ract.2011.1842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Studies of the superheavy elements form one of the pillars of the GSI research program. A unique combination of experimental facilities is installed at the GSI. Various topics, ranging from the synthesis of new elements, spectroscopy experiments to study the nuclear structures of the heaviest nuclei, highly accurate mass measurements beyond uranium, to chemical investigations of elements around element 114 and the synthesis of novel chemical superheavy element compound classes are being studied. This is complemented by fully relativistic quantum chemical calculations. As a recent highlight, the 244Pu(48Ca,3–4n)288,289114 reaction was studied, leading to the observation of element 114 at the new gas-filled recoil separator TASCA.
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