Tellurium 52 Te 127.60(3)   Switch element to... actinium aluminium aluminum americium antimony argon arsenic astatine barium berkelium beryllium bismuth bohrium boron bromine cadmium caesium calcium californium carbon cerium cesium chlorine chromium cobalt copper curium darmstadtium dubnium dysprosium einsteinium erbium europium fermium fluorine francium gadolinium gallium germanium gold hafnium hassium helium holmium hydrogen indium iodine iridium iron krypton lanthanum lawrencium lead lithium lutetium magnesium manganese meitnerium mendelevium mercury molybdenum neodymium neon neptunium nickel niobium nitrogen nobelium osmium oxygen palladium phosphorus platinum plutonium polonium potassium praseodymium promethium protactinium radium radon rhenium rhodium roentgenium rubidium ruthenium rutherfordium samarium scandium seaborgium selenium silicon silver sodium strontium sulfur sulphur tantalum technetium tellurium terbium thallium thorium thulium tin titanium tungsten ununbium ununhexium ununoctium ununpentium ununquadium ununtrium uranium vanadium xenon ytterbium yttrium zinc zirconium Go adjacent... As Se Br Sb Te I Bi Po At

Compounds of tellurium:

tellurium (IV) chloride

• Formula as commonly written: [TeCl₄]₄
• Hill system formula: Cl₁₆Te₄
• CAS registry number: [10026-07-0]
• Formula weight: 1077.643
• Class: chloride

Synonyms

• tellurium (IV) chloride
• tellurium chloride
• tellurium tetrachloride

Physical properties

• Colour: pale yellow (solid); maroon (liquid)
• Appearance: crystalline solid
• Melting point: 223°C
• Boiling point: 390°C
• Density: 3000 kg m^-3

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Element analysis and oxidation numbers

Synthesis

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Solid state structure

• Geometry of tellurium:
• Prototypical structure:

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the [TeCl₄]₄ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Te₄Cl₁₆

mass  %
1052   0.0 
1053   0.0 
1054   0.0 
1055   0.0 
1056   0.0 
1057   0.0 
1058   0.1 
1059   0.1 
1060   0.3 
1061   0.4 
1062   1.0 
1063   1.3 _
1064   2.7 _
1065   3.2 __
1066   6.3 ___
1067   6.7 ___
1068  13.2 _______
1069  12.4 ______
1070  24.4 ____________
1071  20.3 __________
1072  40.5 ____________________
1073  28.8 ______________
1074  60.4 ______________________________
1075  35.3 __________________
1076  80.5 ________________________________________
1077  37.0 __________________
1078  95.6 ________________________________________________
1079  32.8 ________________
1080 100.0 __________________________________________________
1081  24.5 ____________
1082  91.2 ______________________________________________
1083  15.3 ________
1084  71.9 ____________________________________
1085   8.0 ____
1086  48.5 ________________________
1087   3.5 __
1088  27.8 ______________
1089   1.2 _
1090  13.5 _______
1091   0.4 
1092   5.5 ___
1093   0.1 
1094   1.9 _
1095   0.0 
1096   0.5 
1097   0.0 
1098   0.1 
1099   0.0 
1100   0.0 
1101   0.0 
1102   0.0 

References

The data on these compounds pages are assembled and adapted from the primary literature and several other sources including the following.

• R.T. Sanderson in Chemical Periodicity, Reinhold, New York, USA, 1960.
• N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw in Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd edition, Butterworth, UK, 1997.
• F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, C.A. Murillo, and M. Bochmann, in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Trotman-Dickenson, (ed.) in Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamon, Oxford, UK, 1973.
• R.W.G. Wyckoff, in Crystal Structures, volume 1, Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, 1963.
• A.R.West in Basic solid state chemistry Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Wells in Structural inorganic chemistry, 4th edition, Oxford, UK, 1975.
• J.D.H. Donnay, (ed.) in Crystal data determinative tables, ACA monograph number 5, American Crystallographic Association, USA, 1963.
• D.R. Lide, (ed.) in Chemical Rubber Company handbook of chemistry and physics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 77th edition, 1996.
• J.W. Mellor in A comprehensive treatise on inorganic and theoretical chemistry, volumes 1-16, Longmans, London, UK, 1922-1937.
• J.E. Macintyre (ed.) in Dictionary of inorganic compounds, volumes 1-3, Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 1992.

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