ChemInform Abstract: Reactions of 4-(Diethylamino)selenet-2-(2H)-imine with Nucleophiles — Synthesis of 2-Methylen-3-oxobutane Selenoamides.

✍ Scribed by Plamen K. Atanassov; Anthony Linden; Heinz Heimgartner

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 32 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201040193

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The title selenetimine (I) suffers an electrocyclic ring opening at elevated temperatures generating a ketenimine intermediate that can be easily trapped by N‐, O‐, and S‐nucleophiles.