Design of optically active selenium reagents having a chiral tertiary amino group and their application to asymmetric inter- and intramolecular oxyselenenylations

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(96)01166-0

A new class of chiral selenium reagents 4-7 was synthesized on the basis of the concept that the strong intramolecular interaction between an electrophilic selenium and an optically modified tertiary amine (Se··N interaction) would induce asymmetric induc