Tellurium Cyanide Pseudohalides

Only two representatives of this class of tellurium eompounds are known. They were prepared in quantitative yields from diphenyl tellurium iodide cyanide and silver pseudohalides.  

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Pseudohalides of Se in which the role of halogen is played by cyanide, thiocyanate or selenocyanate are known and, in the case of Se are much more stable with respect to disproportionation than are the halides themselves. Examples are Se(CN)2, Se2(CN)2, Se(SeCN)2, Se(SCN)2, Se2(SCN)2. The selenocyanate ion SeCN is ambidentate like the thiocyanate ion, etc., p. 325), being capable of ligating to metal centres via either N or Se, as in the osmium(IV) complexes [OsCl5(NCSe)], [OsCl5(SeCN)], and trans-[OsCU(NCSe)(SeCN)]2-.920) Tellurium and polonium pseudohalogen analogues include Te(CN)2 and Po(CN)4 but have been much... 

When diaryl tellurium halide cyanides are stirred in chloroform with silver pseudohalides, diaryl tellurium dipseudohalides with the same or different pseudohalides are formed. 

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