title: Relativistic effects in chemistry: more common than you thought.
abstract: Relativistic effects can strongly influence the chemical and physical properties of heavy elements and their compounds. This influence has been noted in inorganic chemistry textbooks for a couple of decades. This review provides both traditional and new examples of these effects, including the special properties of gold, lead-acid and mercury batteries, the shapes of gold and thallium clusters, heavy-atom shifts in NMR, topological insulators, and certain specific heats.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland. pekka.pyykko@helsinki.fi
authors.forename: Pekka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pyykkö