Aspects of Organoselenium and Organotellurium Chemistry

The Chemistry of several condensed selenophenes, and tellurophenes (1–4) will be presented. The synthesis of mixed selenium-tellurium fulvenes (5) and generation of 2,4-bis-methyleneditelluretane (6) will be discussed.

Keywords:

• Benzoselenophene
• benzotellurophene

Acknowledgments

Financial support of this work was provided by the National Science Foundation (CHE-99-10177). We also thank Prof. H. B. Sigh and the Organizers of the IXth International Conference on Selenium and Tellurium Chemistry for the invitation to share our findings with colleagues in this area.