Novel water-soluble diaryl tellurides, alkyl aryl tellurides, and dialkyl tellurides carrying sulfopropyl groups were prepared and found to possess potent peroxide decomposing and chain-breaking antioxidative capacity. The dilithium, disodium, dipotassium, and bis- tetramethylammonium salts of bis (4-hydroxyphenyl) telluride (4) were treated with 2.3 equiv of 1, 3-propanesultone in aqueous tert-butyl alcohol to give the corresponding salts 5 of ...
