As a result of much faster phenyl telluride group transfer relative to the corresponding iodine atom transfer, tin-free radical cyanation of alkyl phenyl tellurides has been achieved with p-toluenesufonyl cyanide and methyl allyl sulfone in the presence of V-40 as initiator.
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Kim et al. (2002) studied this question.