Comment on “Investigation on the structure and thermoelectric properties of CuxTe binary compounds” by Shriparna Mukherjee et al., Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 1040

The Raman spectra of copper tellurides are nearly unknown. This is due not only to the difficulty in obtaining single-phase specimens, but also to the low inelastic light scattering efficiency of Cu2−xTe. To date, only the Raman spectrum of the vulcanite phase, CuTe, has been both measured and calculated by density functional theory. The authors of the commented work reported the Raman spectra of Cu2Te, Cu1.6Te and Cu1.25Te samples. However, the assignment of the measured modes has been defective and their Raman spectra lack some of the features usually found for copper tellurides.