New and efficient selenium reagents for stereoselective selenenylation reactions

Abstract

The simple substitution of an aryl proton by a methoxy substituent improves the selectivity of the stereoselective selenenylation reaction dramatically, leading to addition products with diastereomeric ratios up to 50:1 in the methoxyselenenylation reaction of styrene.

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