selenium

• Formula: Se
• Molecular weight: 78.96
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/Se Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: BUGBHKTXTAQXES-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 7782-49-2
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: Selenium atom
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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: John E. Bartmess

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Individual Reactions

(CAS Reg. No. 16661-43-1 • 4294967295) +  = CAS Reg. No. 16661-43-1

By formula: (CAS Reg. No. 16661-43-1 • 4294967295Se) + Se = CAS Reg. No. 16661-43-1

(CAS Reg. No. 101021-48-1 • 4294967295) +  = CAS Reg. No. 101021-48-1

By formula: (CAS Reg. No. 101021-48-1 • 4294967295Se) + Se = CAS Reg. No. 101021-48-1

(Se₂^- • 4294967295) +  = Se₂^-

By formula: (Se₂^- • 4294967295Se) + Se = Se₂^-

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
L - Sharon G. Lias

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

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Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

References

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Stoneman and Larson, 1986
Stoneman, R.C.; Larson, D.J., Photodetachment spectroscopy of SeH^- in a magnetic field, J. Phys. B:, 1986, 19, 405. [all data]

Wagman, Evans, et al., 1982
Wagman, D.D.; Evans, W.H.; Parker, V.B.; Schumm, R.H.; Halow, I.; Bailey, S.M.; Churney, K.L.; Nuttall, R.L., The NBS Tables of Chemical Thermodynamic Properties (NBS Tech Note 270), J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, Supl. 1, 1982, 11. [all data]

Coe, Snodgrass, et al., 1986
Coe, J.V.; Snodgrass, J.T.; Freidhoff, C.B.; McHugh, K.M.; Bowen, K.H., Photoelectron spectroscopy of the negative ion SeO^-, J. Chem. Phys., 1986, 84, 618. [all data]

Snodgrass, Coe, et al., 1989
Snodgrass, J.T.; Coe, J.V.; McHugh, K.M.; Freidhoff, C.B.; Bowen, K.H., Photoelectron Spectroscopy of the Selenium and Tellurium Containing Negative Ions: SeO₂^-, Se₂^- and Te₂^-, J. Phys. Chem., 1989, 93, 4, 1249, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100341a016 . [all data]

Vandevraye, Drag, et al., 2012
Vandevraye, M.; Drag, C.; Blondel, C., Electron affinity of selenium measured by photodetachment microscopy, Phys. Rev. A, 2012, 85, 1, 015401, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.85.015401 . [all data]

Mansour, Edge, et al., 1988
Mansour, N.B.; Edge, C.J.; Larson, D.J., Laser Photodetachment Spectroscopy of Se- and S-, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. B, 1988, 31, 1-2, 313-316, https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-583X(88)90437-5 . [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]

Kelly, 1987
Kelly, R.L., Atomic and ionic spectrum lines of hydrogen through kryton, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1987, 16. [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]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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