Through Modification of Tellurium-Containing Polymers

These tellurium-containing polymers were checked for their catalytic activity in the ep-oxidation of olefins and as oxidizing agents. The polymeric 4-methoxyphenyl tellurium oxide did not react with amines, amides, alcohols, or phenols, but oxidized hydroquin-ones to quinones, thiols to disulfides, thioketones to ketones, thioesters to esters, and thiobenzamides in organic solvents to cyanobenzenes and in acetic acid to 2,5-diaryl-4,l, 3-thiadiazoles.  

Irgolic Three-, Four-Membered Ring Systems with Tellurium Atoms 

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