{"id":245442,"date":"2026-10-15T09:13:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/superheavy-element-compound-reveals-weaker-than-expected-bond-due-to-relativistic-effects"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:13:01","slug":"superheavy-element-compound-reveals-weaker-than-expected-bond-due-to-relativistic-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/superheavy-element-compound-reveals-weaker-than-expected-bond-due-to-relativistic-effects","title":{"rendered":"Superheavy-element compound reveals weaker-than-expected bond due to relativistic effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superheavy-element-compound-reveals-weaker-than-expected-bond-due-to-relativistic-effects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international collaboration led by a research group from GSI\/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has achieved the first measurement of the chemical stability of a superheavy element compound.<\/p>\n<p>The focus was on the hexacarbonyl complex Sg(CO)\u2086 of seaborgium (Sg, element 106). The result: The bond between the seaborgium atom and a carbonyl ligand is weaker than expected based on its position in the periodic table. Relativistic effects are the cause.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-11105-2\" target=\"_blank\">results<\/a> are published in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international collaboration led by a research group from GSI\/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has achieved the first measurement of the chemical stability of a superheavy element compound. The focus was on the hexacarbonyl complex Sg(CO)\u2086 of seaborgium (Sg, element 106). The result: The bond between the seaborgium atom and a carbonyl ligand is weaker than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}