Summary: A variety of heteroatom-substituted methyllithiums (GCH, Li; G= MeOCH, CH, O-, PhCH, O-, Me, N-, Me, Si-, Me, Ge-," Bu, Sn-," BuTe-) were generated by the lithium-tellurium exchange reaction of corresponding tellurides with butyllithium and were trapped with electrophiles. The potent utility of bis (butyltel1uro) methane as a methylene dianion synthon was demonstrated, where both of the butyltelluro groups were displaced stepwise by ...
[Ager, David J.; Cooke, Glen E.; East, Michael B.; Mole, Susan J.; Rampersaud, Ashraff; Webb, Victoria J. Organometallics, 1986 , vol. 5, p. 1906 - 1908]
