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Is E112 a relatively inert element? Benchmark relativistic correlation study of spectroscopic constants in E112H and its cation

Chemical Physics 2009-11-11 v2 Computational Physics

Abstract

We report the first results of relativistic correlation calculation of the spectroscopic properties for the ground state of E112H and its cation in which spin-orbit interaction is taken into account non-perturbatively. Studying the properties of E112 (eka-Hg) is required for chemical identification of its long-lived isotope, 283^{283}112. It is shown that appropriate accounting for spin-orbit effects leads to dramatic impact on the properties of E112H whereas they are not so important for E112H+^+. The calculated equilibrium distance, Recalc=1.662R_e^{calc}=1.662 A, in E112H is notably smaller than Reexpt=(1.738±0.003)R_e^{expt}=(1.738\pm0.003) A and Recalc=1.738R_e^{calc}=1.738 A in HgH, whereas the dissociation energy, Decalc=0.42D_e^{calc}=0.42 eV, in E112H is close to Deexpt=0.46D_e^{expt}=0.46 eV and Decalc=0.41D_e^{calc}=0.41 eV in HgH. These data are quite different from ReNH=1.829R_e^{NH}=1.829 A and DeNH=0.06D_e^{NH}=0.06 eV obtained for E112H within the scalar-relativistic Douglas-Kroll approximation [Nakajima and Hirao, Chem. Phys. Lett., 329, 511 (2000)]. Our results indicate that E112 should not be expected to be "more inert" than Hg in opposite to the results by other authors.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0508024,
  title  = {Is E112 a relatively inert element? Benchmark relativistic correlation study of spectroscopic constants in E112H and its cation},
  author = {N. S. Mosyagin and T. A. Isaev and A. V. Titov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0508024},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 1 table, the text of the paper was essentially improved