“…In a nice illustration of how an inorganic element can dictate molecular structure, bis(pentafluorophenyl)tellurium oxide, [(F 5 C 6 ) 2 Te(μ-O)] 2 ( 948 ), is a centrosymmetric dimer with a planar Te 2 O 2 ring, while its selenium congener is a weakly associated hexamer, [(F 5 C 6 ) 2 SeO] 6 ( 949 ), with long Se---O and Se---Se bonds; both species were formed via the oxidation of the Se(II) and Te(II) precursors, Ch(C 6 F 5 ) 2 (Ch = Se and Te), with m -chloroperbenzoic acid in chloroform . Structurally related tellurium oxide heterocycles characterized in the literature include a polymorph of 948 , [(2,4,6-Ph 3 C 6 H 2 )Te(μ-O)X] 2 (X = Br and I; 950 and 951 ), the siloxy-capped tellurium(VI) oxide [(Me 3 SiO) 4 Te(μ-O)] 2 ( 952 ), [(2,6-(MeO) 2 C 6 H 3 )Te(μ-O)OMe] 2 ( 953 ), salts of the dianion [F 3 Te(μ-O)TeF 3 ] 2– ( 954 ), and the ureatotellurium oxide [( t BuNC(O)N t Bu)Te(μ-O)] 2 ( 955 ) …”