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Generation of the first tellurium-containing diheteropentalene
Desikan Rajagopal1, M V Lakshmikantham, Eva H Mørkved
1Chemistry Department, University of Alabama, P.O. Box 870336, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, USA.
Organic Letters
|April 2, 2002
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] The known diester dibromomethylthiophene was converted to the tellurolo[3,4-c]thiphene, the first example of a diheteropentalene containing a tellurophene annelated across the 3,4-c position to thiophene. It is stable in solution and adds to DMAD across the 2,5-positions in tellurophene. The intermediate loses tellurium and collapses to a tetracarbomethoxy benzo[c]thiophene derivative.