Tellurium geometry

A number of tellurium-containing mixed-oxide structures have been described. In all but one, tellurium is in the (+4) state. In barium tellurite monohydrate, [BaTe08,Ha0], the tellurium geometry is three-co-ordinate pyramidal with Te-O distances of 1.847, 1.858, and 1.859 A. These values are smaller than the sum of the covalent radii, and imply considerable multiple bonding. The next closest oxygen atoms are at distances of 3.035 and 3.322 A. 

C09-0129. Tellurium compounds, which are toxic and have a hideous stench, must be handled with extreme care. Predict the formula of the tellurium-fluorine molecule or ion that has the following molecular geometry (a) bent (b) T-shaped (c) square pyramid (d) trigonal bipyramid (e) octahedron and (Q seesaw. 

Table VIII lists some of the more important physical properties of TeF4. In the orthorhombic crystals, each tellurium atom is surrounded by three terminal and two bridging fluorine atoms, arranged at the apices of a distorted square pyramid. The square-pyramidal units are linked by cis-bridging atoms into endless chains with a bridge angle of 159°. The nearest intermolecular contacts to the tellurium atom are 2.94 and 3.10 A, so that there are no other significant interactions. This geometry is in accordance with the steric activity of the lone electron pair at the tellurium atom. Figure 6 shows the atomic arrangement (54).

Several methods achieving the debromination of v/c-dibromides by means of tellurium reagents are well established. These methods are particularly advantageous compared to the conventional ones in terms of the mildness of the experimental conditions, good yields, lack of important side reactions and inermess of several functionalities to the employed reagents. A relevant characteristic of these reactions is the high E2-type stereospecificity demonstrated by the formation of olefins with Z and E geometry from threo-and eryf/iro-dibromides, respectively. 

The sequential treatment of bis(2-oxomethyl)tellurium dichlorides with 2 equiv of LDA in THF at -78°C and 2 equiv of an aldehyde, followed by heating at 25°C, affords the enones with E geometry in good yields. The same reaction performed with methyl vinyl ketone gives rise to the cyclopropane. ... 

Quenching of the reaction mixture with aqueous HCl yields the tellurium-free aUcenes with retained geometry of the C-C double bond. 

Test of Uptake Model Based on a Slow Surface Reaction Combined with Diffusion within the Particle. Since the simple diffusion model is inadequate to describe the uptake behavior of the molybdenum and tellurium oxide vapors by the clay loam particles, a more complex model is required, in which the effects of a slow surface reaction and of diffusion of the condensed vapor into the particle are combined. Consider the condensation of a vapor at the surface of a substrate (of any geometry) and the passage by diffusion of the condensed vapor through a thin surface layer into the body of the substrate. The change in concentration of solute per unit volume in the surface layer caused by vapor condensa-... 

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... 

Zr(CH=CH2)2(C5Me5)2] and elemental tellurium. The complex is assumed to contain tellurium atoms in a bent, two-coordinate geometry, which is common for this element in its divalent state. 

It is evident from the above table that a considerable spread of chemical shift values is observed in tellurium-transition metal complexes, but the factors that determine the chemical shift are still poorly understood and data are not available for all known structural types. The most extensive compilations of data have been provided by Rauchfuss (187) and Herrmann (191), with the point being made in the former reference that chemical shifts are extremely sensitive to changes in cluster geometry. In principle, 12sTe NMR spectroscopy is a valuable method for studying tellurium-transition metal clusters in solution, but it is clear that more data are required before unambiguous structural assignments can be inferred. 

The molecular structure of Te(S2COEt)(S2CNEt2) (262) is shown in Fig. 163 and it becomes immediately evident that the coordination geometry is the same as that found for the binary tellurium xanthates described above. The xanthate ligand forms Te—SI and Te—S bond distances of 2.535(2) and 2.911(3) A, respectively, and these are longer than the corresponding distances formed by the dithiocarbamate ligand of 2.489(3) and 2.801(3) A, respectively. This key... 

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