Introduction Atomic Structures and Properties Electronic configurations Radii of atoms and ions Ionisation enthalpies Oxidation states Compound formation in maximum oxidation states Stability of compounds in aqueous solution Magnetic properties Coloured ion formation Alloy formation Interstitial compound formation Coordination Compounds Types of ligands Homleptic and heteroleptic complexes Coor...

We propose and evaluate the use of metallocene compounds as reducing agents for the chemical vapour deposition (and specifically atomic layer deposition, ALD) of the transition metal Cu from metalorganic precursors. Ten different transition metal cyclopentadienyl compounds are screened for their utility in the reduction of Cu from five different Cu precursors by evaluating model reaction energi...

In the present paper pressure-temperature phase diagram of a generalized Hub-bard model with correlated hopping in a paramagnetic state at half-filling is determined by means of the generalized mean-field approximation in the Green function technique. The constructed phase diagram describes metal-to-insulator transition with increasing temperature, and insulator-to-metal transition under the ac...

We report results of structural, magnetic and electrical measurements performed on the perovskite RE1/3Sr2/3FeO3 compounds (RE= rare earth). Samples with light RE (La, Pr or Nd) show a metal-insulator-like transition coupled to an antiferromagnetic ordering upon cooling. This transition is believed to be brought about by a charge ordering of Fe and Fe ions in the low temperature phase accompani...

New metal-free phthalocyanines (8–9) fused in peripheral positions with four tetraazadithiahexaoxa supercryptands were synthesized by tricyclotetramerization of isoindolinediimine derivatives of supercryptands (6–7). Metallophthalocyanines (10–11) were prepared by the reaction of the metal-free phthalocyanines with metal salts or cyclotetramerization of dicyano compounds (4–5) and anhydrous sal...

We studied a novel universal spectrochemical series of six-coordinated octahedral 3d transition metal complexes, which can be used for any combination of central metal atom and ligand molecules. A two dimensional spectrochemical series could be used to estimate the ligand field splitting energy of not only known compounds but also the unknown compounds. Therefore, it should be possible to contr...

Since transition metal impurities affect the electronic and optical properties of semiconductors [1], it is important to understand the role of such unavoidable impurities on those properties. At the same time, transition metals in semiconductors can be used in other unusual situations. The energy levels related to transition metal impurities are aligned with respect to each other for the same ...