Pyykkö Pekka
Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Annu Rev Phys Chem. 2012;63:45-64. doi: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032511-143755. Epub 2012 Jan 30.
Relativistic effects can strongly influence the chemical and physical properties of heavy elements and their compounds. This influence has been noted in inorganic chemistry textbooks for a couple of decades. This review provides both traditional and new examples of these effects, including the special properties of gold, lead-acid and mercury batteries, the shapes of gold and thallium clusters, heavy-atom shifts in NMR, topological insulators, and certain specific heats.
相对论效应会强烈影响重元素及其化合物的化学和物理性质。几十年来，无机化学教科书已提及这种影响。本综述给出了这些效应的传统例子和新例子，包括金、铅酸电池和汞电池的特殊性质、金和铊簇的形状、核磁共振中的重原子位移、拓扑绝缘体以及某些比热。
