Hydrogen ditelluride

Hydrogen ditelluride
Hydrogen ditelluride
  Tellurium, Te
  Hydrogen, H
Names
IUPAC name
Hydrogen ditelluride
Systematic IUPAC name
Ditellane
Other names
ditellane
Dihydrogen ditellanide
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEBI
ChemSpider
239518
  • InChI=1S/H2Te2/c1-2/h1-2H
    Key: JVCDLODDVKFSTM-UHFFFAOYSA-N
  • [TeH][TeH]
Properties
H2Te2
Molar mass 257.22 g·mol−1
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

Hydrogen ditelluride or ditellane is an unstable hydrogen dichalcogenide containing two tellurium atoms per molecule, with structure H−Te−Te−H or (TeH)2. Hydrogen ditelluride is interesting to theorists because its molecule is simple yet asymmetric (with no centre of symmetry) and is predicted to be one of the easiest to detect parity violation, in which the left handed molecule has differing properties to the right handed one due to the effects of the weak force.

  1. ^ Macintyre, Jane E. (1995). Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds, Supplement 3. CRC Press. p. 287. ISBN 9780412491108.