Method B. A 0.65 g sample of tellurium was dissolved in
10 mL of TOP by overnight heating at 220 °C. After cooling
to room temperature, 1.96 mL of the resulting greenish-yellow
solution was mixed with 0.11 mL (1.47 mmol) of dimethylcadmium
and 3 mL of TOP. This mixture was loaded into a
5 mL syringe and injected into 10 g of DDA vigorously stirred
at 150 °C in a 50 mL two-neck flask with attached reflux
condenser. Directly before injection, the heater from the reaction
flask was removed. The deep-yellow transparent solution
obtained after injection slowly changed its color to bloody-red
with time. Heating was resumed after approximately 10-15 min
when the temperature of the reaction mixture had reached 90-
100 °C. This initiated further slow growth of the particles, which
was monitored by measuring the absorption and photoluminescence
spectra of the reaction mixture at regular intervals of time.