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Base Treatment of Benzylic Selenonium Salts. Sigmatropic Rearrangements vs. Nucleophilic Displacement
Gassman, Paul G.,Miura, Takashi,Mossman, Allen
, p. 558 - 559 (1980)
Treatment of certain benzylic selenonium salts with a variety of bases resulted in nucleophilic attack to yield either an alkylation or a benzylation of the base, while the use of sodium amide in liquid ammonia as base generated a selenonium ylide which gave ortho substitution of the benzyl group via sigmatropic rearrangement.
Sigmatropic Rearrangement of Ylides Derived from Benzylic Selenonium Salts
Gassman, Paul G.,Miura, Takashi,Mossman, Allen
, p. 954 - 959 (2007/10/02)
The sigmatropic rearrangement of a series of ylides derived from benzylic selenonium salts has been observed.These ylides alkyl or aryl o-methylbenzyl selenides.The competition between nucleophilic displacement and ylide formation in the reaction of base with benzylic selenonium salts has been evaluated.
