A planar dianionic ditelluride and a cyclic tritelluride supported by P2N2 rings

Andreas Nordheider; Tristram Chivers; Ramalingam Thirumoorthi; Kasun S Athukorala Arachchige; Alexandra M Z Slawin; J Derek Woollins; Ignacio Vargas-Baca

doi:10.1039/c2dt32716c

A planar dianionic ditelluride and a cyclic tritelluride supported by P2N2 rings

Dalton Trans. 2013 Mar 14;42(10):3291-4. doi: 10.1039/c2dt32716c. Epub 2012 Dec 21.

Authors

Andreas Nordheider¹, Tristram Chivers, Ramalingam Thirumoorthi, Kasun S Athukorala Arachchige, Alexandra M Z Slawin, J Derek Woollins, Ignacio Vargas-Baca

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

PMID: 23258425
DOI: 10.1039/c2dt32716c

Abstract

Oxidation of alkali metal derivatives of [Te((t)BuN)P(μ-N(t)Bu)(2)P(N(t)Bu)Te](2-) with I(2) produces the intermediate ditelluride dianion [Te((t)BuN)P(μ-N(t)Bu)(2)P(N(t)Bu)Te](2)(2-) with a planar PTeTeP conformation and, subsequently, the cyclic tritelluride [((t)BuN)P(μ-N(t)Bu)(2)P(N(t)Bu)(μ-TeTeTe)].