Relativistic effects in heavy-element chemistry

The nature of relativistic effects in the electronic structure of atoms and molecules is explained and an account of theoretical methods for relativistic calculations in a quantum-mechanical framework is given. The focus is on the requirement of reducing the number of degrees of freedom in the theory in order to obtain computationally efficient and still highly accurate approximations. Some applications illustrating the relativistic effects in coinage metal atoms and molecules are discussed.

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