Rich and Suter diagrams are a very useful tool to explain the electron configurations of transition elements, and in particular, the "irregular" configurations of the elements Cr, Cu, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, and Pt. They were proposed by Rich and Suter in Rich, R. L.; Suter, R. W.; J. Chem. Educ. 1988, 65, 702. Link
Just clone or download this repo. This is not a package (yet, maybe someday :-))
See the tutorial file.
For those who work in the terminal there is a simple command line interface
(CLI) for getting the diagrams. The script name is rich_suter.py
and it accepts the following syntax according to its --help
:
usage: Rich-Suter diagram plotter [-h] [-s] series
positional arguments:
series Transition series: 3d, 4d or 5d
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s, --save Saves figure in current folder
As seen, the series is mandatory and the --save
flag allows to save the
diagram in the current folder. The script file must be in the same folder as
the data folder. See the following example for the 3d series diagram
$ python rich_suter.py 3d
If you want to save:
$ python rich_suter.py 3d --save
All contributions are welcome.
Issues
Feel free to submit issues regarding:
- recommendations
- more examples for the tutorial
- enhancement requests and new useful features
- code bugs
Pull requests
- before starting to work on your pull request, please submit an issue first
- fork the repo
- clone the project to your own machine
- commit changes to your own branch
- push your work back up to your fork
- submit a pull request so that your changes can be reviewed
MIT, see LICENSE
If you use this project in a scientific publication or in classes, please consider citing as
F. L. S. Bustamante, Rich and Suter diagrams with python, 2019 - Available at: https://github.com/chicolucio/rich-suter-diagrams