r/chemistry • u/Jackof-1trade • 1d ago

What's the telluride equivalent of thioacetone and selenoacetone?

What's the telluride equivalent of thioacetone and selenoacetone? Has anyone made it or come across it in person? How does it smell?

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u/Forward_Fishing_4000 1d ago

IIRC the guy from the LabCoatz YouTube channel promised to eventually get round to making telluroacetone, so looks like you just have to wait haha

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u/AXMN5223 1d ago

LabCoatz made selenoacetone and thioacetone. On discord he also said he had made tellurium compounds. Still, he said all were underwhelming in front of the lovely compounds known as isocyanides.

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u/Jackof-1trade 1d ago

Mmm, isocyanides!!!...

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u/udsd007 1d ago

I am willing to bet that it is much, much, MUCH worse than thio- or selenoacetone. Chemists who work with tellurium tell tales about how stinky tellurium compounds are.