The Between Places

Nobody saw Hina fall out of the moon and down to the earth below. She landed in the concrete parking lot of Club Rock-Za, between a red Volkswagen Bug and a white Monte Carlo. It was an unusually wet night, even for winter, and so the neon-lit hostess clubs, strip joints, and sports bars of Kapiolani Boulevard were nearly deserted in the torrential downpour. A storm bank blew in from the west and cried rain for three straight days. The falling water danced in the yellow glow of lonely streetlamps; it exploded into a thousand shards on rooftops and sidewalks; it cascaded through the gutters, and into the gaping maws of the waiting storm drains

Preparation and structures of tellurium(iv) halide complexes with thioether coordination

The first chalcogenoether complexes of Te(iv) chloride and bromide are prepared by reaction of the thioether with a suspension of TeX(4) in anhydrous CH(2)Cl(2), and the products characterised by IR, Raman, (1)H and (125)Te{(1)H} NMR spectroscopy and microanalysis. The structures of the distorted octahedral chelate complexes [TeX(4){RS(CH(2))(2)SR}] (X = Cl or Br; R = Me or (i)Pr) and the centrosymmetric halo-bridged dimers [{X(3)(Me(2)S)Te}(2)(micro-X)(2)] (X = Cl or Br) involving Te(iv) are reported and the structures interpreted in terms of a three-centre-four-electron bonding model, with weak, secondary Te-S interactions. The structure of a unique Te(ii) thioether complex, [TeCl{(i)PrS(CH(2))(2)S(i)Pr}][Te(2)Cl(9)] obtained as a decomposition product from a sample of [TeCl(4){(i)PrS(CH(2))(2)S(i)Pr}], in which a Te(ii) thioether cation and Te(iv) chloride anion are weakly associated via micro(2)- and micro(3)-bridging Cl ligands, is also described. In this case distortions in the coordination environment at the Te(ii) ion are attributed to the effects of the Te-based lone pairs.<br/