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SODIUM HYDROGEN TELLURIDE AS A USEFUL NUCLEOPHILIC REAGENT FOR THE CLEAVAGE OF EPOXIDES AND OF QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALTS
Barton, Derek H. R.,Fekih, Abdelwaheb,Lusinchi, Xavier
, p. 6197 - 6200 (1985)
Sodium hydrogen telluride opens many epoxides cleanly by an SN2 process to give telluro-alcohols, which by reduction with nickel boride afford alcohols.An intermediate telluro-alcohol was converted to olefin in high yield by treatment with p-toluene-sulphonyl chloride in pyridine.Quaternary ammonium salts are also cleaved efficiently by sodium hydrogen telluride.