ABSTRACT

It could be prepared also by another procedure (Bonasia and Arnold 1992). Diethyl ether (70 mL) was added to a stirred mixture of 2.4 mM of (THF)2LiTeSi(SiMe3)3 and 1.20 mM of HgCl2. The brown mixture was stirred for 12 h, after which no further darkening was observed. The solvent was removed under reduced pressure, and the residue was extracted with pentane (50 mL). The yellow solution was ltered, concentrated to 10 mL, and cooled to −40°C. After 12 h, 0.763 g clear green-yellow crystals were isolated by ltration.