Synthetically interesting organic transformations involving tellurium are reviewed with an emphasis on reactions recently appeared in the literature. Included are oxidation and reduction with tellurium-based reagents, tellurium-mediated carbon-carbon bond formation, telluronium ylides and tellurilimines, elimination of tellurium moiety leading to olefins, oxytelluration, hydrogenolysis and halogenolysis of tellurium-containing compounds.