For a comprehensive understanding of the concepts related to the Periodic Round Table, please click on the titles of the papers below to download a .pdf copy.

ABSTRACT : EIGHT PERIOD TABLE for the 21st CENTURY (.pdf)

The Periodic Table was developed in the nineteenth century and expanded in the twentieth century. Now in the twenty first century we have the perspective to see that the Periodic Table needs to be redrawn with eight periods to make it consistent with the system of electronic configuration.

This redesign has been continually proposed by various scientists since 1928 but has been largely overlooked because of difficulties placing elements hydrogen and helium, elements one an two. Astrophysical evidence of nucleosynthesis shows that hydrogen and helium are the progenitor elements, so there is good reason to place them in a separate period above the rest of the elements, ungrouped to elements below.

ABSTRACT : THE PERIODIC TABLE: LOOKING FORWARD IN 2008 (.pdf)

The history of the Periodic Table was one of discovery of the many elements and then piecing together the parts of the puzzle that would become the Periodic Table. At the time of Mendeleev’s first Table in 1870, only 60 elements were known,a number that increased through episodic bursts of discovery until today virtually all the 118 spaces of the standard display are full.

The current display is not expandable above 118, nor does it present the “f” elements in an integral manner with the rest of the chart. These are reasons enough to undertake a transition to the electronic configuration type table which is infinitely expandable and displays all the elements according to a regular mathematical plan.

ABSTRACT : POST MENDELEEVIAN EVOLUTION OF THE PERIODIC TABLE (.pdf)

This paper, presented in August 2007, commemorates the centennial of Mendeleev’s death. How would he have viewed the redevelopment of the Periodic Table in the last hundred years? Would he have agreed with the standard format now in use, or would he advocate a format consistant with the chart of electronic configuration? One thing is becoming apparent; the standard format has no expandability beyond atomic number 118, yet increasingly we are seeing theoretical and experimental results for elements beyond that point.

ABSTRACT: THE MANY LOOKS OF THE PERIODIC TABLE
CHEM MATTERS, October 2008

(Written for high school students; can be found at acs.org/chemmatters)
This article is a sampling of new designs of the Periodic Table from four contemporary authors. Although the new formats differ somewhat in content, they all make use of dynamic color graphics.
The appearance of many new versions of the Periodic Table suggests that changes may soon appear in the familiar Table of text books and wall charts.