The periodic table - A new arrangement

The Periodic Electronegativity Table

The origins and development of the electronegativity concept as an empirical construct are briefly examined, emphasizing the confusion that exists over the appropriate units in which to express this quantity. It is shown how to relate the most reliable of the empirical scales to the theoretical definition of electronegativity in terms of the quantum potential and ionization radius of the atomic...

Exploration of the medical periodic table: towards new targets.

Metallodrugs offer potential for unique mechanisms of drug action based on the choice of the metal, its oxidation state, the types and number of coordinated ligands and the coordination geometry. We discuss recent progress in identifying new target sites and elucidating the mechanisms of action of anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-parasitic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-neurodegenera...

Cracks in the periodic table.

From the Mendeleev periodic table to particle physics and back to the periodic table

We briefly describe in this paper the passage from Mendeleev’s chemistry (1869) to atomic physics (in the 1900’s), nuclear physics (in the 1932’s) and particle physics (from 1953 to 2006). We show how the consideration of symmetries, largely used in physics since the end of the 1920’s, gave rise to a new format of the periodic table in the 1970’s. More specifically, this paper is concerned with...

The heuristic account and the periodic table

In 2001, Worrall and Scerri critically reviewed claims held by philosophers and historians of science (Maher 1988, Lipton 1991, Brush 1996) that the acceptance of Dimitri Medeleev’s periodic table within the scientific community was strongly influenced by the prediction of novel elements made by Mendeleev based on “gaps” within the table. The intuition behind these claims has to do with the jus...