Highly chemoselective synthesis of functionalized diselenides from alkyl halides using benzyltriethylammonium tetrathiomolybdate

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Kandikere R. Prabhu and Srinivasan Chandrasekaran


Abstract

A variety of functionalized selenocyanates generated in situ from the corresponding alkyl halides undergo a facile reductive coupling on treatment with benzyltriethylammonium tetrathiomolybdate 1 under very mild conditions to give the corresponding diselenides in very good yields.


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