Selenium dioxide is used as a common oxidant to introduce oxygen functionality at an enolic or allylic position. Complex mixtures of selenium-containing by-products are often formed, but
Structure of new organoselenium compounds from a selenium dioxide oxidation
✍ Scribed by Tarja Laitalainen; Tapio Simonen; Raikko Kivekäs
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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✦ Synopsis
The common oxidant selenium dioxide usually oxidizes a monoketone to an o(-diketone; in special cases an oC,/3 -unsaturated ketone or an allylic oxidation product is formed instead. 1 Selenium-containing by-products are often formed during the oxidation, but are seldom characterized. 2
We have reported earlier3 that selenium dioxide oxidation of diosphenol I gives the diketone II in 50 % yield:
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