Institution: | aSchool of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia bBio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia |
Abstract: | Alkyl pent-4-enyl selenides (3a, b, e and f), pent-4-enylseleno benzoate (3c) and phenyl (pent-4-enylseleno)formate (3d) act as precursors of alkyl, acyl and oxyacyl radicals by reaction with diethyl 2-phenylselenomalonate (1) under photochemical conditions in a process involving tandem homolytic addition/substitution to afford tetrahydroselenophenes (5, 11) and the corresponding phenylselenides (6). |