Complexes of metals with organotellurium compounds and nanosized metal tellurides for catalysis, electrocatalysis and photocatalysis

Click chemistry in the synthesis of catalytically relevant organoselenium compounds: development and applications of catalysts for organic synthesis

“…Interestingly, significant work has been done on the syntheses of organosulphur, organoselenium and organotellurium ligands and their utilization in catalysts’ development for numerous chemical transformations. 14–37,65–74 However, click-generated catalytically relevant ligands having sulphur and/or selenium donor(s) are limited in number. Their utilization in catalyst development and study of the applications are also limited to some coupling reactions, oxidation of alcohols and transfer hydrogenation reactions.…”

Organosulphur and organoselenium compounds as emerging building blocks for catalytic systems forO-arylation of phenols, a C–O coupling reaction

“…Similar advantage may be offered by the catalytic systems if designed using organotellurium ligands. 204…”

Molecular Organosulphur, Organoselenium and Organotellurium Complexes as Homogeneous Transition Metal Catalytic Systems for Suzuki Coupling

“…An additional feature of such ligands is that they do not exhibit toxic behaviour. It is well known that a large number of sulphur, selenium and tellurium compounds have been utilized in biological applications proving their very low to non‐toxic nature [24,44,46,147,149,161–165] . They have also been used as biosensors possessing low cytotoxicity to the living cells [163] .…”

“…[18,19,30,69] sulphur, selenium and tellurium compounds have been utilized in biological applications proving their very low to non-toxic nature. [24,44,46,147,149,[161][162][163][164][165] They have also been used as biosensors possessing low cytotoxicity to the living cells. [163] In addition, certain organoselenium compounds such as selenourea, selenazole and pyrazole substituted selenoether have also proven their efficiency for anti-cancer activity in comaprison to conventional agents and have also been prefereed for drug delivery and improved caner treatment.…”