SYNTHESIS OF THE FIRST BENZODISELENAGERMOLES AND ONE SPIROBISDISELENAGERMOLE

Abstract

The first examples of compounds R¹R²GeSe₂C₆H₄R³ (R¹,R²=CH³ C₂H₅, C₃H₂, n-C₄H₉, i-C₅H₁₁, Ph, p-CH₃Ph. R³=H, CH₃, OCH₃) were easily obtained (40–80% yield) from electrophilic cleavage of diselenophenylene zirconocenes by dialkyl or diaryl dichlorogermanes. The synthesis of a spirodi-selenagermole was achieved in the same way using germanium tetrachloride. Analytical data, ¹H and ⁷⁷Se NMR. mass spectra are perfectly consistent with the expected structures.