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Rpdb (version 2.2)

elements: Periodic Table of the Elements

Description

This data set gives various information on chemical elements

Usage

elements

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing for each chemical element the following information.
num
atomic number
symb
elemental symbol
areneg
Allred and Rochow electronegativity (0.0 if unknown)
rcov
covalent radii (in Angstrom) (1.6 if unknown)
rbo
"bond order" radii
rvdw
van der Waals radii (in Angstrom) (2.0 if unknown)
maxbnd
maximum bond valence (6 if unknown)
mass
IUPAC recommended atomic masses (in amu)
elneg
Pauling electronegativity (0.0 if unknown)
ionization
ionization potential (in eV) (0.0 if unknown)
elaffinity
electron affinity (in eV) (0.0 if unknown)
red
red value for visualization
green
green value for visualization
blue
blue value for visualization
name
element name

Source

Open Babel (2.3.1) file: element.txt Created from the Blue Obelisk Cheminformatics Data Repository Direct Source: http://www.blueobelisk.org/ http://www.blueobelisk.org/repos/blueobelisk/elements.xml includes furhter bibliographic citation information - Allred and Rochow Electronegativity from http://www.hull.ac.uk/chemistry/electroneg.php?type=Allred-Rochow - Covalent radii from http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b801115j - Van der Waals radii from http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp8111556

Examples

Run this code
data(elements)
elements

# Get the mass of some elements
symb <- c("C","O","H")
elements[match(symb,elements[,"symb"]),"mass"]

# Get the van der Waals radii of some elements
symb <- c("C","O","H")
elements[match(symb,elements[,"symb"]),"rvdw"]

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