The reaction of 2,3‐diaminomaleonitrile with TeX4 (X = Cl, Br) in the presence of pyridine (Py) and/or triethylamine (Et3N) provided 3,4‐dicyano‐1,2,5‐telluradiazole (1), which was isolated neat and as stable adducts with pyridine, chloride, and bromide, namely, 1·2Py, (PyH)(1·Cl), (PyH)2(1·2Cl), (Et3NH)(1·Cl), (PyH)(1·Br), and (PyH)2(1·2Br). The molecular and supramolecular structures of these compounds were investigated by X‐ray crystallography. In the solid state, intermolecular associations through secondary Te···N interactions as well as N–H···X and N–H···N hydrogen bonding (X = Cl, Br) were observed. For (PyH)(1·Br), two polymorphs were found. The bonding situation of 1 and its pyridine and chloride adducts were investigated by MP2 calculations supplemented with the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) and natural bond orbital (NBO) analyses. The π symmetry of the frontier molecular orbitals (MOs) of 1 are preserved in the 1·2Py, (1·Cl–), and (1·2Cl–) adducts. In the chloride adducts, the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) can be described as an antibonding combination of the HOMO of 1 with the 3p atomic orbitals (AOs) of the chloride ions, whereas the lowest occupied molecular orbital (LUMO) resembles that of the parent 1. The charge transfer onto the heterocycle in the adducts increases in the order 1·2Py, (1·2Cl–), and (1·Cl–). QTAIM analyses of the adducts in the gas phase reveal closed‐shell interactions, whereas NBO analyses indicate negative hyperconjugation as the main formation pathway in these complexes. This description agrees with the Alcock model suggested for secondary bonding interactions between atoms of heavy p‐block elements and atoms with lone pairs.

New products of coordination of anions X– (X = F, I, PhS) to the Te atom of 3,4-dicyano-1,2,5-telluradiazole (1) were synthesized in high yields and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) as the salts [(Me2N)3S]+[1-F]− (9), [K(18-crown-6)]+[1-I]− (10), and [K(18-crown-6)]+[1-SPh]− ·THF (11), respectively. In the crystal lattice of 10, I atoms are bridging between two Te atoms. The bonding situation in anions of the salts 9–11 and some other adducts of 1,2,5-chalcogenadiazoles (chalcogen = S, Se, Te) and anions X– (X = F, Cl, Br, I, PhS) was studied using DFT, QTAIM, and NBO calculations, for 9–11 in combination with UV–vis, IR/Raman, and MS-ESI techniques. In all cases, the nature of the coordinate bond is negative hyperconjugation involving the transfer of electron density from X– to the heterocycles. The energy of the bonding interaction varies in a range from ∼30 kcal mol–1 comparable with energies of weak chemical bonds (e.g., internal N–N bond in organic azides) to ∼86 kcal mol –1 comparable with an energy of the C–C covalent bonds. The thermodynamics of the anions’ coordination to 1 and their Se and S congeners was also studied by quantum chemical calculations. The general character of this reaction and favorable thermodynamics in the case of heavier chalcogens (Se, Te) were established. Comparison with available data on acyclic analogues, i.e. the chalcogen diimines RNXNR, reveals that they also coordinate various anions but in addition reactions across XN (X = S, Se, Te) double bonds. Attempts to prepare the anion [1-TePh]− led to disintegration of 1. The only unambiguously identified product was a rather rare tellurocyanate that was characterized by XRD and elemental analysis as the salt [K(18-crown-6)]+[TeCN]− (13).

Tris(2,3,5,6-tetrathiaaryl)methyl cations, which were generated from the corresponding triarylmethanols in the presence of strong acids, underwent reaction with nucleophiles to give trityl radicals, as the product of a one-electron reduction of the carbocation. Depending on the nature of the nucleophile, the only byproducts were either diamagnetic quinone methides or asymmetrical monosubstituted trityl radicals. Herein, we report a protocol for the large-scale synthesis of the Finland trityl, which has the advantage of high overall yield and reproducibility.

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The effects of increased level of dopamine (DA) (feeding flies with DA precursor, L-dihydroxyphenylalanine, L-DOPA) on the level of 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) and on juvenile hormone (JH) metabolism in young (2-day-old) wild type females (the strain wt) of Drosophila virilis have been studied. Feeding the flies with L-DOPA increased DA content by a factor of 2.5, and led to a considerable increase in 20E level and a decrease of JH degradation (an increase in JH level). We have also measured the levels of 20E in the young (1-day-old) octopamineless females of the strain Tbetah(nM18) and in wild type females, Canton S, of D. melanogaster. The absence of OA led to a considerable decrease in 20E level (earlier it was shown that in the Tbetah(nM18) females, JH degradation was sharply increased). We have studied the effects of JH application on 20E level in 2-day-old wt females of D. virilis and demonstrated that an increase in JH titre results in a steep increase of 20E level. The supposition that biogenic amines act as intermediary between JH and 20E in the control of Drosophila reproduction is discussed.