lutetium

• Formula: Lu
• Molecular weight: 174.9668
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/Lu Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: OHSVLFRHMCKCQY-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 7439-94-3
• Chemical structure:
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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
HL - Edward P. Hunter and Sharon G. Lias
L - Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron
B - John E. Bartmess

View reactions leading to Lu⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

References

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Hunter and Lias, 1998
Hunter, E.P.; Lias, S.G., Evaluated Gas Phase Basicities and Proton Affinities of Molecules: An Update, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1998, 27, 3, 413-656, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.556018 . [all data]

Davis and Thompson, 2001
Davis, V.T.; Thompson, J.S., Measurement of the electron affinity of lutetium, J. Phys. B: Atom. Mol. Opt. Phys., 2001, 34, 14, L433-L437, https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/34/14/102 . [all data]

Lide, 1992
Lide, D.R. (Editor), Ionization potentials of atoms and atomic ions in Handbook of Chem. and Phys., 1992, 10-211. [all data]

Martin, Zalubas, et al., 1978
Martin, W.C.; Zalubas, R.; Hagan, L., Atomic energy levels - the rare earth elements, Natl. Stand. Ref. Data Ser. (U.S. Natl. Bur. Stand.), 1978, 60. [all data]

Kordis and Gingerich, 1977
Kordis, J.; Gingerich, K.A., Mass spectrometric observations of some polyatomic gaseous rare earth oxides their atomization energies, J. Chem. Phys., 1977, 66, 483. [all data]

Ackermann, Rauh, et al., 1976
Ackermann, R.J.; Rauh, E.G.; Thorn, R.J., The thermodynamics of ionization of gaseous oxides; the first ionization potentials of the lanthanide metals and monoxides, J. Chem. Phys., 1976, 65, 1027. [all data]

Guido, Balducci, et al., 1972
Guido, M.; Balducci, G.; De Maria, G., Thermodynamics of rare-earth-carbon systems. IV. The lutetium-carbon system, J. Chem. Phys., 1972, 57, 1475. [all data]

Camus and Tomkins, 1972
Camus, P.; Tomkins, F.S., Absorption-line series in LuI, J. Physiol. (Paris), 1972, 33, 197. [all data]

Moore, 1970
Moore, C.E., Ionization potentials and ionization limits derived from the analyses of optical spectra, Natl. Stand. Ref. Data Ser., (U.S. Natl. Bur. Stand.), 1970, 34, 1. [all data]

Hertel, 1968
Hertel, G.R., Surface ionization. III. The first ionization potentials of the lanthanides, J. Chem. Phys., 1968, 48, 2053. [all data]

Alekseev and Kaminskii, 1965
Alekseev, N.I.; Kaminskii, D.L., Ionization of some rare earth elements on the surfaces of tungsten, rhenium, and iridium, Zh. Tekhn. Fiz. 1964,34,1521 (Engl. Transl.: Soviet Phys. - Tech. Phys., 1965, 9, 1177). [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy

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