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SUMMARY:Pushing the Extremes of the Periodic Table under Extreme Conditions
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20250401T160000
UID:2026-04-23-01-12-53@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260423T011253
Description:About the Seminar:\n\nElements beyond uranium are rich testbeds
  for probing how relativistic effects alter electronic structure and hence
  molecular structure\, physical properties\, and reactivity. However\, man
 y questions arise during these studies including: Can we push these elemen
 ts to display properties that they would not normally display under ambien
 t conditions and perhaps provide better clarity on how relativistic effect
 s manifest? To provide some answers to these questions we have been alteri
 ng the chemistry and physical properties of complexes containing trans-plu
 tonium elements through either highly reducing or oxidizing conditions in 
 nonaqueous media to access atypical oxidation states and pressurizing thes
 e same complexes using diamond anvil cells to modify their molecular and e
 lectronic structures. This talk will detail these ongoing investigations.\
 n\nAbout the Speaker: \n\nThomas Albrecht is a University Distinguished P
 rofessor and Director of the Nuclear Science &amp\; Engineering Center at 
 the Colorado School of Mines. He is also jointly appointed as a Scientist 
 at Idaho National Laboratory and at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is 
 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the AAAS and winner of seve
 ral American Chemical Society awards including the Glenn T. Seaborg Award 
 for Nuclear Chemistry as well as the American Crystallographic Association
 \, M. J. Buerger Award. His research interests center on the chemistry\, p
 hysics\, and materials science of radioactive elements\, especially heavy 
 elements like berkelium and californium. Professor Albrecht received his P
 h.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University and was a post-doctoral fel
 low at the University of Illinois. 4:00 pm
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