Module 5 : Reactions with Miscellaneous Reagents

Lecture 40 : Sulfur, -Selenium and -Tellurium Compounds

    

Examples:

 

R. W. Curley, Jr., C. J. Ticoras, J. Org. Chem. 1986 , 51 , 256.

H. Rapopart, U. T. Bhalerao, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1971 , 93 , 4835.

 

5.5.3 Tellurium Compounds

Organotellurium compounds have been used in a number of organic transformations. The following are some of the important applications.

 

Synthesis of Biaryls

Deoxygenation of Epoxides

Vicinal Dibromination

Text Book

M. B. Smith, Organic Synthesis , 2nd Ed., McGraw Hill, Singapore, 2004.