a simple, rapid and sensitive method has been developed for determination of trances of tellurium (vi) (0.096-1.250 mg/ml) based on its catalytic effect on the reduction reaction of toluidine blue by sulfide ion at ph 4. the reaction is monitored spectrophotometrically by measuring the decrease in absorbance of the dyestuff at 628 nm by the fixed time method. the detection limit is 80 ng/ml and...

The formation of chiral (R)-[2-(4-ethyl-2-oxazolinyl)phenyl]tellurium(IV) trihalides (trichloride (5), tribromide (6) and triiodide (7)) and (R)-[2-(4-ethyl-2-oxazolinyl)phenyl]tellurium(II) bromide (8) is described. The molecular structure of the first chiral organotellurium(IV) triiodide (7) is discussed. The most interesting feature of the structure of 5 is the observation of the shortest in...

Six unsymmetrical diorganyltellurium(IV) dichlorides RR'TeCl2 (where R= phenacyl-, 1-naphthacyl-, and styrylacyl- and R' = p-methoxyphenyl, p-hydroxyphenyl-, and 3-methyl-4-hydoxyphenyl-) were tested for their antibacterial activity against gram-positive (Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633 and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923) and gram-negative (Escherichia coli ATCC 25922. Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC...

Despite a century of research and increasing environmental and human health concerns, the mechanistic basis of the toxicity of derivatives of the metalloid tellurium, Te, in particular the oxyanion tellurite, Te(IV), remains unsolved. Here, we provide an unbiased view of the mechanisms of tellurium metabolism in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by measuring deviations in Te-related traits of ...

A simple, rapid and sensitive method has been developed for determination of traces of tellurium (IV) (7.0-120.0 ng/ml) based on it’s catalytic effect on the reduction reaction of lauth’s violet by sulfide ion at pH 4.2. The reaction is monitored spectrophotometrically by measuring the decrease in absorbance of lauth’s viole at 600 nm by the fixed time method. The detection limit is 5.0 ng/ml a...

a simple, rapid and sensitive method has been developed for determination of traces of tellurium (iv) (7.0-120.0 ng/ml) based on it’s catalytic effect on the reduction reaction of lauth’s violet by sulfide ion at ph 4.2. the reaction is monitored spectrophotometrically by measuring the decrease in absorbance of lauth’s viole at 600 nm by the fixed time method. the detection limit is 5.0 ng/ml a...

An overview highlighting the anti-cancer potential of (bio-essential) seleniumand tellurium-containing species, with an emphasis on biological targets and mechanisms of action, is presented. Studies thus far have focused on selenium(II) compounds (along with – to a lesser extent – inorganic selenium and selenium nanoparticles) which often successfully exploit the inherent anti-oxidizing ability...

The development of metal oxide-based molecular wires is important for fundamental research and potential practical applications. However, examples of these materials are rare. Here we report an all-inorganic transition metal oxide molecular wire prepared by disassembly of larger crystals. The wires are comprised of molybdenum(VI) with either tellurium(IV) or selenium(IV): {(NH4)2[XMo6O21]}n (X=...

Electrodeposition of elemental Te from [NnBu4]2[TeCl6] in a weakly coordinating solvent, dichloromethane, has been investigated. The reduction the Te(IV) complex to deposit shows very large (> 1 V) overpotential on clean Pt macrodisc electrodes and microelectrodes that is significantly reduced once deposited electrode. Corresponding studies show there no significant for deposition Te(II) comple...