Wednesday, 2 November 2016

transition metals - What is the reason for the anomalous electronic configuration of palladium?




The p block elements generally have the general valence shell configuration as np16ns12. Expected electronic configuration for palladium is X46X2462Pd=1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d8. But I find that it's valence shell instead is 4d105s0 I first thought, for achieving fully filled d-subshell, 2 electrons go to the d-subshell from s-subshell. This electron transfer should happen for all members of its group, yet only palladium demonstrates this. Why is this so?




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