page_title: Organotellurium chemistry
section_title: Functional groups
hierarchical_section_title: Organotellurium chemistry / Functional groups
caption_attribution_description: English: General structures of the most common organotellurium compounds. Structures drawn with ChemBioDraw Ultra 12.0
context_page_description: Organotellurium chemistry in chemistry describes the synthesis and properties of chemical compounds containing a carbon to tellurium chemical bond. Organotellurium chemistry was developed in the wake of organoselenium chemistry and, though sharing the same group in the periodic table, their chemistries are very different given the inversion of polarity in the chalcogen-carbon bond.
context_section_description: The Te analogues of common organosulfur functional groups are known.  Tellurols are unstable.  Diorganomono- and ditellurides are the most commonly encountered organotellurium compounds.  Telluroxides (R₂TeO) are also known.
caption: General structures of some organotellurium compounds
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