Facile one-step synthesis of palladium tellurium alloy nanorods

Catalytically active nanosized Pd9Te4(telluropalladinite) and PdTe (kotulskite) alloys: first precursor-architecture controlled synthesis using palladium complexes of organotellurium compounds as single source precursors

“… 23 ) and Pd 13 Te 3 (ref. 24 ) have been studied upto some extent. Catalysis, an important applications of other metal chalcogenides, has not seen the potential of binary phases of palladium tellurides except a few reports on PdTe.…”

“… 2,6,8 Though the ligand chemistry of organotellurium compounds is explicitly explored with palladium and a variety of coordination compounds have been synthesised, 6,8 use of such compounds as SSPs for the development of nanostructures of binary phases of palladium tellurides at bulk or nano-scale have been rarely explored. 24 However, in situ generation of Pd 3 Te 2 nanoparticles has been reported during catalysis of a Suzuki–Miyaura coupling by a tellurium ligated molecular Pd( ii ) complex.…”