Recently, the periodic table (fig.1) celebrated its 150 years anniversary. It perfectly survived the temendous development in our understanding of the atomic structure, reveling it as a great universal discovery. This talk will illustrate the predictive power of this unique ordering scheme of the chemical elements towards the chemical properties of discovered and undiscovered superheavy elements. Therefore, experimental results obtained from gas phase chemical investigations of transactinides have been analyzed in the view of expectations from chemical trends in the corresponding groups of the periodic table. The other way around it will be tried to present an outlook of potentially exciting chemical systems for transactinide elements to be experimentally investigated in the future respecting their short half-lives and their minute production rates. Some selected recent developments in this field are presented with special focus on their advantages, challenges, and their future potential.

Mendeleev’s periodic table: Guide to transactinide chemistry

Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

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