Selenoxides compounds

The stmcture of the compound 67b was determined by X-ray (95JA6388). The length of the Te=Se bond (2.445 A) is 0.1 A shorter that in bis(2-ethylcarboxy-phenyltellurenyl) selenide (81CSC1353), which points to a greater double bond character of this bond in the former compound. Selenoxide 67b has a boat conformation. The length of the transannular Te- N bond (2.620 A) is appreciably shorter than the corresponding van der Waals contact (3.70 A). The intramolecular coordination Te- N bond thus formed contributes to the stabilization of the boat conformation of the compounds 67. 

This ch ter contains reactions which prepare the oxides of nitrogen, sulfur and selenium. Included are W-oxides, nitroso and nitro compounds, nitrile oxides, sulfoxides, selenoxides and sulfones. Oximes are considered to be amines and appear in those sections. Preparation of sulfonic acid derivatives are found in Chapter Two and the preparation of sulfonates in Chapter Ten. 

Other phosphorous compounds, as shown in Table 8, were resolved by the same procedure. The three isomeric phosphinates 27b-d containing a methyl group attached to the aryl substituent could also be resolved, irrespective of the methyl position. From the related phosphine oxides 28a d, however, only those with R=H (28a) and R=m-CH (28c) could be well resolved no satisfactory resolution could be obtained for the other isomers of 28. The efficiency of the optical resolution of alkylaryl-substituted sulfoxides and selenoxides was found to depend similarly on the type of substitution on the aryl ring. 

In another elegant approach (Scheme 18), a synthesis of 5-alkenyl-substituted 1,2,4-oxadiazoles relies upon a selenoxide. -elimination at the 5-a-carbon of the selenium resin-supported 1,2,4-oxadiazole 152. Access to compound 152 was achieved in two steps from the supported oxadiazole 150, which underwent deprotonation and alkylation at the 5-a-carbon to give the a-alkylated selenium resin 151. 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition then gave the selenium resin-supported 1,2,4-oxadiazole 152 <2005JC0726>. 

In the case of the most reactive compounds, substitution at the carbon atom of diselenonium and ditelluronium dications is also a possible pathway. For example, formation of diselenide 117 from selenoxide 115 was explained by demethylation of intermediate dication 116 with trifluoroacetate anion.126 Dealkylation of salt 118, which is stable up to —20°C, leads to formation of nitrilium salt 119. The latter is transformed to amide 120 upon hydrolysis.64 Dealkylation of intermediate diselenonium dication 122 was suggested as the key step in the oxidative synthesis of 1,2,4-diselenazolidines 123 from eight-membered heterocycles 121 (Scheme 46).127... 

Chiral sulfonium ylides have been known for some 30 years, and their stereochemistry and properties have been studied.15 Optically active selenonium ylides were obtained by reacting selenoxides with 1,3-cyclohexanedione under asymmetric conditions by Sakaki and Oae in 1976 for the first time,16 and also optically resolved by fractional recrystallization of the diastereomeric mixtures in the early 1990s.17 In 1995, optically active selenonium ylides 6 were obtained in over 99% de by nucleophilic substitution of optically active chloroselenurane or selenoxide with active methylene compounds with retention of configuration.18 The absolute configurations were determined by X-ray analysis of one... 

Not only propargyl precursors but also acceptor-substituted 1-methyleneallyl compounds such as 67, 71 or 74 can be used to produce the target allenes by sigmatropic reactions (Scheme 7.10). After oxidation of selenium compounds 67 followed by equilibration of the resulting selenoxides 68 and selenenic esters 69, hydrolysis... 

Oxidation of thiols and related compounds with organoselenium(IV) and organotellurium(rV) compounds 102 Other oxidations with selenoxides and telluroxides 106 Thiolperoxidase and haloperoxidase-like activity of organoselenides and organotellurides 108... 

The final products of oxidation of diarylselenides and tellurides (and sulfides as well) in the presence of nucleophiles are the corresponding chalcogen (IV) compounds. In the presence of water, the selenoxide or telluroxide (or the corresponding dihydroxy selenane or tellurane) is the final product. This still leaves several possible pathways, leveraged from early mechanistic studies done using electrochemical techniques on diaryl sulfides and outlined by Engman (Fig. 32). In these pathways, the initial radical cation can react with a nucleophile present in solution, or the dication resulting from further oxidation or disproportionation can do so. 

Selenoxides are even more reactive than amine oxides toward [> elimination. In fact, many selenoxides react spontaneously when generated at room temperature. Synthetic procedures based on selenoxide eliminations usually involve synthesis of the corresponding selenide followed by oxidation and in situ elimination. We have already discussed examples of these procedures in Section 4.7, where the conversion of ketones and esters to their x,/J-unsatu rated derivatives was considered. Selenides can also be prepared by electrophilic addition of selenenyl halides and related compounds to alkenes (see Section... 

Oxidation of chiral sulfonimines (R"S02N=CHAr)and chiral sulfamyl-imines (R RNS02N=CHAr)affords optically active 2-sulfonyloxaziridines and 2-sulfamyloxaziridines, respectively. These chiral, oxidizing reagents have been used in the asymmetric oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides (15-68% ee), 11-13 selenides to selenoxides (8-9% ee] enolates to a-hydroxycarbonyl compounds (8-37% ee) and in the asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes (15-40% ee)... 

Elimination of sulfur, selenium, tellurium compounds Selenoxides... 

There are many other methods for carrying out 1,2 eliminations to give olefins. Several are particularly useful and widely used. Selenoxide eliminations are frequently used to install file double bond of a, /3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. They occur by concerted, cyclic, syn processes... 

This compound, the perchloric acid adduct of the selenoxide, exploded at 139°C during melting point determination. The tellurium analogue was similar. 

This strategy involving a Pummerer dehydration of sulfoxide and/or selenoxide is not applicable for preparation of tellurium analogs. The first diheteropentalene bearing the tellurolo[3,4-c]thiophene framework, e.g. 262, has been generated from 259 using tellurium metal in the presence of sodium iodide in DME. Compound 262 appears to be stable in dilute solution for no more than 1-2 h and adds to DMAD across the 4,6-positions in the tellurophene part. The intermediate 263 loses tellurium and collapses to a l,3,5,6-tetramethoxycarbonylbenzo[c]thiophene derivate 264 (Scheme 51) [81],... 

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