Yttrium - 39Y: properties of free atoms
Yttrium atoms have 39 electrons and the shell structure is 2.8.18.9.2.
The ground state electron configuration of ground state gaseous neutral yttrium is [Kr].4d1.5s2 and the term symbol is 2D3/2.
![Kossel shell structure of yttrium](../_media/elements/electronic_configuration/electronic_configuration_Y.png)
![Kossel shell structure of yttrium](../_media/elements/kossel_diagrams/kossel-atom_Y.png)
Atomic spectrum
A representation of the atomic spectrum of yttrium.
Ionisation Energies and electron affinity
The electron affinity of yttrium is 29.6 kJ mol‑1. The ionisation energies of yttrium are given below.
![Ionisation energies of yttrium](../_media/elements/ionisation_energies/ionisation_energies_Y.png)
Effective Nuclear Charges
The following are "Clementi-Raimondi" effective nuclear charges, Zeff. Follow the hyperlinks for more details and for graphs in various formats.
1s | 38.18 | ||||||
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2s | 28.62 | 2p | 35.00 | ||||
3s | 23.55 | 3p | 23.09 | 3d | 25.40 | ||
4s | 14.26 | 4p | 12.75 | 4d | 15.96 | 4f | (no data) |
5s | 6.26 | 5p | (no data) | 5d | (no data) | ||
6s | (no data) | 6p | (no data) | ||||
7s |
References
These effective nuclear charges, Zeff, are adapted from the following references:
- E. Clementi and D.L.Raimondi, J. Chem. Phys. 1963, 38, 2686.
- E. Clementi, D.L.Raimondi, and W.P. Reinhardt, J. Chem. Phys. 1967, 47, 1300.
Electron binding energies
Label | Orbital | eV [literature reference] |
---|---|---|
K | 1s | 17038 [1] |
L I | 2s | 2373 [1] |
L II | 2p1/2 | 2156 [1] |
L III | 2p3/2 | 2080 [1] |
M I | 3s | 392 [2, values derived from reference 1] |
M II | 3p1/2 | 310.6 [2] |
M III | 3p3/2 | 298.8 [2] |
M IV | 3d3/2 | 157.7 [3] |
M V | 3d5/2 | 155.8 [3] |
N I | 4s | 43.8 [2] |
N II | 4p1/2 | 24.4 [2] |
N III | 4p3/2 | 23.1 [2] |
Notes
I am grateful to Gwyn Williams (Jefferson Laboratory, Virginia, USA) who provided the electron binding energy data. The data are adapted from references 1-3. They are tabulated elsewhere on the WWW (reference 4) and in paper form (reference 5).
References
- J. A. Bearden and A. F. Burr, "Reevaluation of X-Ray Atomic Energy Levels," Rev. Mod. Phys., 1967, 39, 125.
- M. Cardona and L. Ley, Eds., Photoemission in Solids I: General Principles (Springer-Verlag, Berlin) with additional corrections, 1978.
- Gwyn Williams WWW table of values
- D.R. Lide, (Ed.) in Chemical Rubber Company handbook of chemistry and physics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 81st edition, 2000.
- J. C. Fuggle and N. Mårtensson, "Core-Level Binding Energies in Metals," J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1980, 21, 275.