| Abstract: | Diacyltellurides: Synthesis by Reactions of Acyl Chlorides with Bis(trialkylsilyl)tellurides. Structure Determinations of Di(1-adamantoyl)telluride and Adamantanecarbonic Anhydride Bis(isopropyldimethylsilyl)telluride ( 1 ) is prepared from tellurium with lithiumtriethylhydridoborate and chloro(isopropyl)dimethylsilane. From reactions of acylchlorides RCOCl with 1 , diacyltellurides (RCO)2Te (R = CH3- 2 , i-C3H7- 3 , i-C4H9- 4 , (CH3)3CH2-) 5 are isolated in pure state after removal of chloro(isopropyl)dimethylsilane. With succinic and glutaric dichlorides, 1 leads to impure cyclic diacyltellurides 6 (tellurosuccinic anhydride) and 7 (telluroglutaric anhydride). The reactions of bulky pivaloyl chloride and 1-adamantoyl chloride with 1 are too slow to be synthetically useful, but using bis(trimethylsilyl)telluride, dipivaloyltelluride 8 and di(1-adamantoyl)telluride 9 are straightforwardly available. 9 is accompanied by traces of 1-adamantanecarbonic anhydride 10 and by small amounts of di(1-adamantyl)ditelluride 11 . Constitutions of the new compounds 1 , 3–7 and 9 were confirmed by multinuclear NMR and mass spectroscopy. The structures of 9 and 10 were determined by X-ray crystallography. |
