Mitzel and co-workers recently presented an intriguing molecule displaying a tellurium-nitrogen interaction. Structural data obtained in the solid and in gas phase indicated a large increase of the Te-N equilibrium distance r e from 2.64 to 2.92 , respectively. Although some DFT calculations appear to support the large r e in gas phase, we argue that the lions share of the increase is due to an incomplete description of finite-temperature effects in the back-corrected experimental data. This hypothesis is based on high-level coupled-cluster (CC) and periodic DFT calculations, which consistently point towards a much smaller r e in the isolated molecule. Further support comes through MD simulations with a tuned GFN2-xTB Hamiltonian: Calibrated against a CC reference, these show a six-times larger influence of temperature than with the originally used GFN1-xTB. Taking this into account, the backcorrected r e in gas phase becomes 2.67 AE 0.08 , in good agreement with high-level CC theory and most DFT methods.Non-covalent interactions (NCIs) are fundamental to the three dimensional structure of matter. [1][2][3][4][5][6] By developing a better understanding for them, [7][8][9][10][11][12] chemists have gained access to many new ways to shape matter, e.g., through selfassembly of large molecules in solution or pattern recognition. [6,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Emerging from this line of research, several novel NCI motifs have been suggested and debated in recent