Front Cover: Ruthenium‐Assisted Tellurium Abstraction in Bis(thiophen‐2‐yl) Ditelluride (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 14/2023)

The Front Cover shows the reaction of [RuCl2(CO)3]2 and Te2Tpn2 (Tpn=thiophen-2-yl) in dichloromethane. The dark winter night in the North, which is dimly illuminated by northern lights, illustrates that [RuCl2(CO)3]2 catalyzes the decomposition of Te2Tpn2 to TeTpn2 and elemental tellurium even in the absence of light, as shown on the right side of the picture. [RuCl2(CO)3]2 is a bifunctional reagent and reacts concurrently with the monotelluride, forming the cct-[RuCl2(CO)2(TeTpn2)2] [cis(Cl)-cis(CO)-trans(TeTpn2)] complex, as shown on the left side of the picture. The reactions were followed by NMR spectroscopy and modeled with the help of theoretical calculations. More information can be found in the Research Article by R. Oilunkaniemi, R. S. Laitinen and co-workers.