Highly Efficient Route to Diselenides fr
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Xiaodan Zhao; Zhengkun Yu; Fanlong Zeng; Jinzhu Chen; Xiaowei Wu; Sizhong Wu; We
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Reactions of selenium with imines (RR^1^CNR^2^) of aldehydes and ketones in the presence of carbon monoxide, water and triethylamine lead to reductive selenation, on aerobic work‐up, to afford symmetrical diselenides (RR^1^CHSe)~2~ in good to excellent yields. The proposed mechanism su