Selenides, aryl 1-

M-1 s-1 alkyl phenyl selenides, aryl bromides, vinyl bromides, a-chloro esters, a-thiophenyl esters 104-102M 1 s-1 alkyl chlorides, alkyl phenyl sulfides, a-chloro and a-thiophenyl ethers. 

Mixed aryl selenides have also proven to be excellent ree ents for group transfer reactions.Photolysis of selenides in an inert solvent such as benzene can initiate chain reactions. Substituted radicals can be generated in this manner, from a-selenoe-... 

A solid-liquid phase-transfer technique is used to synthesize aryl difluoro-methyl sulfides and selenides thiophenols dissolved in an aromatic solvent are treated with solid sodium hydroxide in the presence of a catalytic amount of tris(3,6-dioxaheptyl)amine (TDA1) [49] This condensation proceeds by a carbene mechanism (equation 44)... 

The difficulties encountered in the synthesis of 2-alkyl- and 2-aryl-substituted selenazoles lie principally in the preparation of the corresponding selenoamides. In this respect, a method is worthy of note in which the use of selenoamides is dispensed with. For this, a nitrile, a hydrogen selenide, and an a-halogenoketone are reacted together in the presence of a condensation catalyst. Phosphorus oxychloride, alone or mixed with zinc chloride or phosphorus trichloride, is specially suitable. The yields of the corresponding 2-alkylseIenazoles are up to a maximum of 25%,... 

OOJA11009). Similarly, aryl acyl selenide 111 gave a mixture of diastereoisomers 112 and 113. 

Unsymmetric allylstannanes in which the tin substituent is at the more substituted end of the allyl fragment have been obtained by oxidative elimination of primary alkyl aryl selenides which are available from the corresponding primary alcohols. This procedure was satisfactory for allylstannanes unsubstituted at the 3-position, but elimination of secondary aryl selenides gave mixtures of regioisomers33. 

Restricted rotation has been observed in tris-o-tolylphosphine sulphide and selenide (39). The spectrum of the selenide shows two methyl environments in the ratio 2 1 at 30 °C but the methyl signals of the sulphide resolved to this pattern only upon cooling the sample. The corresponding oxide and the parent phosphine showed only one methyl environment down to — 60 °C. Y-Ray diffraction of the selenide showed that the methyl group on one aryl group is directly behind the phosphorus atom in the crystal, as shown in (39). 

The formation of aryl selenides from aryl halides and sodium benzeneselenoate occurs in the presence of nickel catalysts (Equation (41)).132 The trend in catalytic activity was shown to be... 

Unfortunately, the appeal of solid phase extractions on small scale fades as the scale increases due to the cost and inconvenience of using large amounts of fluorous silica gel. Here, modified techniques to reduce the tedium of repeated extractions are attractive. For example, Crich has recently introduced the minimally fluorous selenide C6Fi3CH2CH2C6H4SeH[171. This selenol is added in catalytic quantities to tin hydride reductions of reactive aryl and vinyl radicals. The high reducing capacity of the aryl selenide suppresses undesired reactions of product radicals without suppressing the reactions of the aryl and vinyl radicals themselves. After the reaction is complete, the selenol can be recovered by a modified continuous extraction procedure. 

Fig. 35 Reaction pathways for oxidation of alkyl aryl selenides.

Unlike the aryl methyl selenides, the alkyl aryl selenides with alkyl groups of two carbons or more are able to undergo scission of the radical cation at the Cgp-Se bond, yielding the ArSe radical (Fig. 35). This can impact product distribution, particularly under conditions in which water is not present to react with the radical cation. Trends in ease of oxidation typically seen in series of chalcogen compounds can still be observed, and are consistent with trends in the diaryl chalcogenides and aryl methyl chalcogenides. 

Aryl trimethylsilylmethyl selenides also yielded the diaryl diselenide as the major product, but possibly through a somewhat different mechanism, due to the increased stability of the initially formed radical cation (Fig. 31) ... 

Owing to a very dissymmetric tt-charges distribution on the S—S bridge in aryl methyl disulfides, 4-RC6H4SSMe, the cation radicals of these compounds behave like those of alkyl aryl selenides, undergoing a potential-determined cleavage of the S—S bond or a deprotonation of the methyl group [124,125]. 

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