GENERAL PROPERTIES

• WHAT ARE THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF TRANSITION METALS?

  • d-block elements
  • good conductors
  • hard, strong, shiny
  • high melting and boiling points
  • low chemical reactivity
• ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION OF TRANSITION METALS?

  • two outer 4s electrons
  • 3d gets filled along period
  • Cu and Cr are exceptions
• WHAT IS A TRANSITION METAL?

  element that forms at least one stable ion with a part full d-shell of electrons (some d-block elements like Zn and Sc are not transition elements)
• CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF TRANSITION METALS?

  • variable oxidation states
  • colour
  • catalysts
  • complex formation (form when transition metal is surrounded by ligands bonded to it by co-ordinate bonds)