Disulfur Tellurium Compounds

The chemistry of 1,3-diketone complexes of nonmetallic elements (B, Si, Ge, Sb, Te) has been reviewed.68 Condensation of acetylacetone with TeCl4 yields Te(CH2COCH2COCH2)Cl2 (8a), which may be reduced to Te(CH2COCH2COCFI2) (8b). The crystal structures of these compounds demonstrate an unusual coordination of tellurium to the terminal carbons of the diketonate.61 72 In the dichloride complex, Teiv exhibits a distorted trigonal bipyramidal geometry with a stereochemi-cally active lone electron pair in the equatorial plane. In S2(MeCOCHCOMe)2 the acetylacetonate methine carbons are bonded to a disulfur unit.73... 

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