Homolytic substitution on selenium: formation of selenium-containing heterocycles by direct carbon–selenium bond formation
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 1,p. 57-59
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39920000057
Abstract
Thiohydroxamic esters derived from 5-(benzylseleon)pentanoic acid, 6-(benzylseleno)hexanoic acid and 7-(benzylseleno)heptanoic acid decompose smoothly upon irradiation, with the loss of carbon dioxide, to give tetrahydroselenophene, selenane and selenopane in good yield.Keywords
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