Far more complex than anticipated is the widely utilized reductive cleavage of diorganoditellurides with sodium borohydride. The isolation and characterization of [Pn(C 6 H 5 ) 4 ][(TeC 6 H 5 ) 3 ] (Pn = P, As) suggests that diphenylditelluride is reactive toward the hydride as well as to the phenyltellurolate anion.
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