Synthesis of primary-alkyl selenols and selenides from primary-alkyl thiols involving diphenyl sulfonium salts.
Hexyl thiol has been transformed to hexyl selenol and related selenides and selenocyanate by substitution of the corresponding hexyldiphenylsulfonium tetrafluoroborate with selenium nucleophiles.
Krief
Alain
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Laboratoire de Chimie Organique de Synthese, Facultes Universitaires N.-D. de la Paix, 61 rue de Bruxelles, Namur B-5000, Belgium. alain.krief@fundp.ac.be
Dumont
Willy
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Robert
Michael
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