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Monolayers can be transferred onto many different substrates. Most LB depositions have been perfonned onto hydrophilic substrates, where monolayers are transferred when pulling tire substrate out from tire subphase. Transparent hydrophilic substrates such as glass [18,19] or quartz [20] allow spectra to be recorded in transmission mode. Examples of otlier hydrophilic substrates are aluminium [21, 22, 23 and 24], cliromium [9, 25] or tin [26], all in their oxidized state. The substrate most often used today is silicon wafer. Gold does not establish an oxide layer and is tlierefore used chiefly for reflection studies. Also used are silver [27], gallium arsenide [27, 28] or cadmium telluride wafer [28] following special treatment. 

The arylmethylselenides ArSeMe and tellurides ArTeMe pose somewhat of a special case in the alkyl aryl compounds, due to the comparatively low reactivity of their radical cations, which do not easily undergo cleavage of the chalcogen-methyl bond, due to the low stability of the resulting methyl radical or cation. 

Transition-metal tellurides occupy a special place amongst the chalcogenides. In the... 

Another interesting example of the special behaviour of tellurides is provided by WTe2 and its relatives(Mar era/., 1992). WS2 and WSc2 crystallize in the layered M0S2... 

In this edition, we have incorporated new material in all the chapters and updated references to the literature. New sections dealing with porous solids, fullerenes and related materials, metal nitrides, metal tellurides, molecular magnets and other organic materials have been added. Under preparative strategies, we have included new types of synthesis reported in the literature, specially those based on soft chemistry routes. We have a new section covering typical results from empirical theory and electron spectroscopy. There is a major section dealing with high-temperature oxide superconductors. We hope that this edition of the book will prove to be a useful text and reference work for all those interested in solid state chemistry and materials science. 

From the point of view of the hetero-atom itself, there are two more known below selenium in the Periodic Table. Each deserves some special comment. The next atom, directly below selenium, is tellurium. It is more metallic, and its compounds have a worse smell yet. I heard a story about a German chemist, many years ago, who was carrying a vial of dibutyl telluride in his pocket in a passenger coach from here to there in Germany, back at about the turn of the century. It fell to the floor and broke. No one could remain in the car, and no amount of decontamination could effectively make the smell tolerable. Scratch one railway coach. But the compound, 2C-TE, would be readily makeable. Dimethyl ditelluride is a known thing. 

Radical accumulators whose presence might facilitate addition to / -mono and / ,/ -disubstituted olefins were conceived. It seemed to us that alkylaryl or dialkyl tellurides should react with alkyl radicals and give an intermediate radical of type R1R2R8Te (an expanded valence shell) which might have a relatively longer life on the radical time scale. A secondary objective would be the exchange of one radical against another. In this way, the special nucleophilic properties of the aryl telluride anion for example, could be exploited to make complex natural product derived radicals. 

The diaryl or aryl alkyl tellurides are dense yellow oils or crystalline solids, which are easier to handle than the dialkyl tellurides of similar molecular weight. Some of the diaryl derivatives are almost odorless solids. The same comments are valid for the diorganoditellurides 4, which are dark red oils (aliphatic derivatives) and dark red solids (aromatic derivatives). It is recommended that solutions of tellurides or ditellurides should not be kept in contact with air, since an amorphous white solid will form after some time. For some compounds, this reaction with oxygen is very fast. Aliphatic derivatives are more air sensitive than the aromatic ones. In view of this fact, it is recommended to bubble nitrogen into the solutions while a column or thin-layer chromatographic separation is performed. Evaporation of the solvent, however, minimizes the air oxidation. Pure liquids or solids can be handled in air with no need for special precautions, but prolonged exposure to air and to ambient light should be avoided. 

Diorganotellurium oxides 8 are prepared by oxidation of diorganotellurides. The dialkyl derivatives are prone to air oxidation specially when they are in solution. The diaryl tellurides 3 are more stable being oxidized to the corresponding tellurium oxides 8 by sodium periodate32 or A -chlorosuccinimide followed by alkaline hydrolysis82 (Scheme 14). Alternatively, diaryltellurium dichlorides 6, prepared by electrophilic aromatic substitution (Section 9.13.6.2, Scheme 70), can be hydrolyzed in alkaline medium to the corresponding tellurium oxide 883 (Scheme 14). 

Keeping in mind the easy access to vinylic tellurides (see Sections 5.2.3 and 5.2.5), and their fast transformation into widely-used reactive organometallics, we can consider this reaction sequence as a valid alternative to the known methods of generating vinyllithiums and, specially, vinyl cyanocuprates. In addition, the zz/r/r-hydrotel I u ration of alkynes is unique among the known, synthetically useful hydrometallations, since it allows the direct preparation of... 

Z)-vinylic tellurides are the source of enynes 212 and enediynes 213 by transformation into vinylcopper species (Section 9.13.8.2.4), followed by reaction with haloalkynes (Scheme 113).278,279 The transformation occurs with retention of the double-bond stereochemistry. This is an efficient and straightforward route to important unsaturated units present in natural products, specially in enediyne antibiotics.280... 

The use of sulfones as relays can be extended to the introduction of a large variety of appendages. Vinylation is especially important because of the general difficulty of performing vinylations on sp centres using transition metal chemistry. The examples assembled in Scheme 14 thus acquire a special significance [31]. It is also noteworthy that both the allylation and vinylation reactions, as well as some of the more exotic transformations discussed later in this section, all of which employ sulfone-based reagents, can be applied not just to aliphatic xanthates but also to iodides and tellurides [29,37-44]. 

III) ions. Sm(III) can be reduced to Sm(II) under special conditions, but in solution it is rapidly oxidized to the + 3 state. With respect to the solid state, the halides (SmX2) and some chalogenides(II) (oxide, sulfide, selenide, and telluride compounds) have been obtained. SmEj, together with the oxide, hydroxide, carbonate, oxalate, and phosphate compounds are insoluble in aqueous solution. The halide, perchlorate, nitrate, and acetate compounds are water-soluble. 

Halogen-lithium exchange. Special uses of this method include functionalization of bromoallylamine, preparation of a-silylaldehydes, synthesis of alkenyl tri-flones, trifluoromethyl ketones, alkylidenecyclopentanes" and diaryl tellurides. ... 

The thermoelectric batteries consist of specially arranged pairs of semi-conductors made of bismuth-telluride alloys. While electrical efficiency of thermoelectric batteries is relatively low ( 4%), the long thermocyclic life is ensured at low allowable hot junctions temperatures of 570 K owing to special geometry of thermoelectric batteries (the radial cylindrical one). Moreover, they can be produced in the CIS, which makes them a cost-effective component. Hence the tubular thermoelectric batteries are the basic component of a tubular thermoelectric module comprised of a needed number of tubular batteries connected in series. 

There are also mixed conductors with ionic and electronic conductance. The sulfides, selenides, and tellurides of silver and lead are examples of this. New plastic materials with ionic conductance have been discovered in polymer chemistry. Nafion is a polymer with ionic conductivity, and it is used in multigas analyzers in anesthesia, where the special high permeability to water is useful. 

The International Cadmium Association (ICdA) in Brussels, Belgium, made an estimate of cadmium consumption for different end uses in 2001. Batteries account for 75%, pigments 12%, coatings and plating 8%, and stabihzers for plastics and similar purposes 4%. The remaining small amount of cadmium, 1%, is used in some very special applications such as nonferrous alloys and as cadmium telluride (CdTe) for electronic compounds. 

The rare earths form a very large number of binary sulfides, selenides and tellurides, which belong to various crystal types. Moreover, in the field of the ternary compounds, there are plenty of compounds having special crystal types. A large part of this paper will be devoted to these latter compounds. 

In contrast, the higher tellurides have special characteristics which will be discussed here. Some references concerning physical properties of R-Te systems are as follows (see also section 2) thermoelectric and electrical properties La-Te system, Ramsey et al. (1965b)... 

See the general references in the Introduction, and some more-specialized books [1-25]. Some articles in journals discuss synthetic catalysts for the photooxidation of water to oxygen [26] kinetics and mechanisms of metal-02 complexes [27] d-block-catalyzed oxidation of sulfur(IV), especially in the atmosphere [28] various metal-02 complexes [29] mainly mono- and poly-selenide and telluride complexes with d-block elements [30] heterogeneous redox catalysts for oxygen release [31] the kinetics and equilibria of oxygen species and metal ions [32] thio- and seleno-complexes of V, Mb, Ta, Mo, W and Re [33] and homonu-clear sulfur species, not emphasizing aqueous reactions [34]. 

A range of oxides, phosphates, carbonates and elemental nanoparticles can be produced. Of special interest to nanotechnologists are the enzymatically controlled redox changes that result in biomineral formation which are linked to microbial respiration such as dissimilatory metal reduction. This latter process has been shown, for instance, to produce Ag(0) nanoparticles 5-40 pm in size ° (Fig. 2), selenium/selenide/telluride nanospheres and rods (Figs. 3 and 4), Au(0), Pd(0) " as well as Tc(IV) and U(IV) (see also for recent reviews). 

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