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Recent Developments in the Lewis Acidic Chemistry of Selenium and Tellurium Halides and Pseudo-Halides

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Recent advances in the electrophilic chemistry of the group 16 elements (the chalcogens) is reviewed with a particular emphasis on their Lewis acidic behavior, a counterintuitive bonding mode for these normally electron rich elements. On going themes include redox reactions between the chalcogen tetrahalides (ChX4; Ch = Se, Te; X = Cl, Br, I) and neutral 2-electron ligands with concomitant reduction of the group 16 centre and elimination of reactive X2 as a by-product. Use of unstable ChX2 circumvents this problem, and strategies to stabilize and use the dihalides is discussed. The use of chalcogen pseudo-halides, where X is an anionic leaving group is presented. Employing these pseudo-halides can eliminate pathways for side reaction, and are easily displaced allowing for the isolation of a variety of highly charged homoleptic coordination complexes.

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Dutton, J.L., Ragogna, P.J. (2011). Recent Developments in the Lewis Acidic Chemistry of Selenium and Tellurium Halides and Pseudo-Halides. In: Woollins, J., Laitinen, R. (eds) Selenium and Tellurium Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20699-3_8

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