CCL: another blog - This on the anomalous configuration in Cr

[Flick Coleman <wcoleman\a/wellesley.edu>]

 Here are two activities
 that I always have students do to disabuse them of the idea that there is
 something "special" or "anomalous" about Cr and Cu.
 
1.  Find the ground state configurations for all elements in the first
 three transition series, and determine how many do not follow the Aufbau
 Principle or whatever "rules" you have previously learned.  
 
2.  Comment as completely as you can on the ground state configuration
 of Ni, Pd and Pt.


Cheers,

Flick
 
_______________
William F.
 Coleman
 Professor of
 Chemistry
Wellesley College
 
 Wellesley MA
 02481

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Eric Scerri scerri(-)chem.ucla.edu <owner-chemistry_._ccl.net> wrote:

 

Dear Colleagues,
Now a blog on the anomalous configuration in chromium and how to explain it or perhaps how not to explain it.

>
> http://ericscerri2.blogspot.com/
>
> comments welcome.
> either here or on the blogsite.
>
> all the best
> eric scerri
>

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