“…In the meantime, until recently, just a handful of oxotellurates(IV), short tellurites, had been described, namely Cs 7 Eu 11 Cl 16 [TeO 3 ] 12 , Na 2 Lu 3 I 3 [TeO 3 ] 4 , and Na 2 Y 3 Cl 3 [TeO 3 ] 4 . Recently, we succeeded in preparation of Cs 7 Sm 11 Cl 16 [TeO 3 ] 12 and Rb 7 Nd 11 Br 16 [TeO 3 ] 12 , isostructural to Cs 7 Eu 11 Cl 16 [TeO 3 ] 12 , as well as a new family of Ln 12 Cd 6 Cl 24 [TeO 3 ] 12 chlorides ( Ln = Sm, Eu, Gd), where a novel [Cd 1‒ x Cl 3 ] building block, sliced from the rock salt structure, has been found. A peculiarity of the M 7 Sm 11 Cl 16 [TeO 3 ] 12 ( M = Rb and Cs) compounds is that they are not isostructural to their formal M 7 Sm 11 Cl 16 [SeO 3 ] 12 analogues, but rather to Rb 6 Li Ln 11 Cl 16 [SeO 3 ] 12 .…”