Information Theory in Describing the Electronic Structures of Atoms

Sa？etak An information approach to the description of atoms by introducing ？differential？ entropy characteristics of chemical elements has been developed. These quantities clearly reflect the horizontal and vertical structure of the periodic table, and the main features of atomic electron structures, such as delay in filling d- and f-subshells, the action of Hund's first rule, the anomalies in the electronic structure of some atoms, the appearance of the first electron having a given value of some quantum number, etc. The necessity of change in the position of lanthanides and actinides in the periodic table is discussed