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rhenium

Also known as Re, element 75, 75Re, nipponium

Rhenium is a chemical element; it has symbol Re and atomic number 75. It is a silvery-gray, heavy, third-row transition metal in group 7 of the periodic table. With an estimated average concentration of 1 part per billion (ppb), rhenium is one of the rarest elements in the Earth's crust. It has one of the highest melting and boiling points of any element. It resembles manganese and technetium chemically and is mainly obtained as a by-product of the extraction and refinement of molybdenum and copper ores. It shows in its compounds a wide variety of oxidation states ranging from −3 to +7.

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Rhenium is a rare, silvery-gray metal with an exceptionally high melting point, making it one of the most heat-resistant elements known. Because it's so uncommon in Earth's crust and typically extracted as a byproduct of mining other metals like molybdenum and copper, rhenium is valuable for specialized industrial applications that require materials to withstand extreme temperatures.

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Chemical data

Formula: Re
Molecular weight: 186.207 g/mol
IUPAC name: rhenium
SMILES: [Re]
InChIKey: WUAPFZMCVAUBPE-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Polar surface area: 0 Å²
H-bond donors: 0
H-bond acceptors: 0
Formal charge: 0

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Research

4,870 papers

Rhenium Radioisotopes for Medicine, a Focus on Production and Applications.ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Uccelli L, Martini P, Urso L et al.DOI: 10.3390/molecules27165283
Fundamentals of Rhenium-188 Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry.ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Kleynhans J, Duatti A, Bolzati CDOI: 10.3390/molecules28031487
Rhenium-Based Complexes and in Vivo Testing: A Brief History.ReviewChembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2020Capper MS, Packman H, Rehkämper MDOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000117
Design of Rhenium Compounds in Targeted Anticancer Therapeutics.ReviewCurrent pharmaceutical design · 2019Collery P, Desmaele D, Vijaykumar VDOI: 10.2174/1381612825666190902161400
Anticancer and Antibiotic Rhenium Tri- and Dicarbonyl Complexes: Current Research and Future Perspectives.ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Schindler K, Zobi FDOI: 10.3390/molecules27020539
Recent Development of Rhenium-Based Materials in the Application of Diagnosis and Tumor Therapy.ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Qi Q, Wang Q, Li Y et al.DOI: 10.3390/molecules28062733
Rhenium-catalyzed deoxydehydration of diols and polyols.ReviewChemSusChem · 2015Dethlefsen JR, Fristrup PDOI: 10.1002/cssc.201402987
Monoclonal Antibodies Radiolabeling with Rhenium-188 for Radioimmunotherapy.ReviewBioMed research international · 2017Uccelli L, Martini P, Pasquali M et al.DOI: 10.1155/2017/5923609

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Wikidata facts

Mass: 186.207
Image: Rhenium single crystal bar and 1cm3 cube.jpg

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Commons gallery: Rhenium
element symbol: Re
Commons category: Rhenium
atomic number: 75
canonical SMILES: [Re]
chemical formula: Re
time of discovery or invention: 1925-00-00
Unicode character: 錸
electronegativity: 1.9
ionic radius: 0.53
oxidation state: 7
electron configuration: [Xe] 4f¹⁴ 5d⁵ 6s²

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Contents

History
Characteristics
Isotopes
Compounds
Halides and oxyhalides
Oxides and sulfides
Other compounds
Organorhenium compounds
Nonahydridorhenate
Analytical chemistry of rhenium
Occurrence
Production
Applications
Alloys
Catalysts
Other uses
Precautions
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

Rhenium was originally discovered in 1908 by Masataka Ogawa, but he mistakenly assigned it as element 43 (now known as technetium) rather than element 75 and named it nipponium. It was rediscovered in 1925 by Walter Noddack, Ida Tacke and Otto Berg, who gave it its present name. It was named after the river Rhine in Europe, from which the earliest samples had been obtained and worked commercially.