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Tetraethylammonium Tetraselenotungstate: A Versatile Selenium Transfer Reagent in Organic Synthesis

Sureshkumar, Devarajulu and Gopinath, Purushothaman and Chandrasekaran, Srinivasan (2012) Tetraethylammonium Tetraselenotungstate: A Versatile Selenium Transfer Reagent in Organic Synthesis. In: CHIMIA, 66 (12, Pa). pp. 921-929.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2012.921

Abstract

Organoselenium compounds have attracted intense research owing to their unique biological properties as well as pharmaceutical significance. Progress has been made in developing reagents for incorporation of selenium in an efficient and controlled manner. Herein, we present a review on the recently developed selenium reagent, tetraethylammonium tetraselenotungstate, Et4N](2)WSe4 as a versatile selenium transfer reagent in organic synthesis. Tetraselenotungstate has been successfully used for the synthesis of a number of functionalized diselenides, sugar- and nucleoside-derived diselenides, seleno-cystines, selenohomocystines, selenoamides, selenoureas and sugar- and nucleoside-based cyclic-selenide derivatives. Additionally, this reagent has been employed for the ring opening of aziridines to synthesize a variety of beta-aminodiselenides. A new selena-aza-Payne type rearrangement of aziridinemethanoltosylates mediated by tetraselenotungstate for the synthesis of allyl amines is also discussed.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: CHIMIA
Publisher: SWISS CHEMICAL SOC
Additional Information: Copyright for this article belongs to SWISS CHEMICAL SOC, SWITZERLAND
Keywords: Aziridines;Diselenides;Selena-aza-Payne and cyclic-diselenides;Selenium;Selenium-transfer reagent;Seleno-cystines;Selenohomocystine;Sugar diselenides; Tetraselenotungstate
Department/Centre: Division of Chemical Sciences > Organic Chemistry
Date Deposited: 13 Feb 2013 10:38
Last Modified: 13 Feb 2013 10:38
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/45798

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