Abstract The previously known phenyl (triphenylstannyl) telluride, PhTeSnPh 3, was prepared by the reaction of triphenyltin chloride, Ph 3 SnCl, with sodium phenyltellurolate, Na (TePh), in liquid ammonia. The molecular structure established by X-ray crystallography and by geometry optimization at the DFT/B3PW91/TZ level of theory was used for calculations of real-space bonding descriptors derived from an atoms-in-molecules (AIM) ...