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The reaction of tellurium tetrachloride with acetylene in CCl4 at atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature affords earlier unknown (E)-2-chlorovinyltellurium trichloride in 30% yield, whose reduction with sodium bisulfite gives (E,E)-bis(2-chlorovinyl) ditelluride in 64% yield.
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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 201–202, January, 2012.
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Potapov, V.A., Musalova, M.V. & Amosova, S.V. Synthesis of (E)-2-chlorovinyltellurium trichloride and (E,E)-bis(2-chlorovinyl) ditelluride. Russ Chem Bull 61, 204–205 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-012-0028-3
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