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Electronic Transmutation (ET): Chemically Turning One Element into Another
Author(s) -
Zhang Xinxing,
Lundell Katie A.,
Olson Jared K.,
Bowen Kit H.,
Boldyrev Alexander I.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201800517
Subject(s) - main group element , group (periodic table) , nuclear transmutation , silicon , gallium , boron , germanium , sulfur , carbon group , group 2 organometallic chemistry , chemical bond , carbon fibers , materials science , aluminium , chemistry , inorganic chemistry , crystallography , metallurgy , transition metal , physics , organic chemistry , nuclear physics , molecule , composite material , catalysis , composite number , neutron
The concept of electronic transmutation (ET) depicts the processes that by acquiring an extra electron, an element with the atomic number Z begins to have properties that were known to only belong to its neighboring element with the atomic number Z+1. Based on ET, signature compounds and chemical bonds that are composed of certain elements can now be designed and formed by other electronically transmutated elements. This Minireview summarizes the recent developments and applications of ET on both the theoretical and experimental fronts. Examples on the ET of Group 13 elements into Group 14 elements, Group 14 elements into Group 15 elements, and Group 15 elements into Group 16 elements are discussed. Compounds and chemical bonding composed of carbon, silicon, germanium, phosphorous, oxygen and sulfur now have analogues using transmutated boron, aluminum, gallium, silicon, nitrogen, and phosphorous.