Reactions involving inorganic compounds*
Alain Krief**, Cathy Delmotte, and Catherine Colaux-Castillo
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique de Synthése,
Department of Chemistry, Facultés
Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur,
Belgium
Abstract: Selenium chemistry became, over the last 30 years,
particularly useful for synthetic organic chemistry [1]. Inorganic as
well as organic selenium compounds allow transformation which otherwise
cannot be done or require much more drastic conditions to proceed. We
have over the last 25 years explored the reactivity of elemental selenium
as well as its inorganic and organic derivatives. We report here our
recent finding concerning (i) organic diselenols and -diselenolates
and (ii) the role of selenoxides in the enantioselective dihydroxylation
of C,C double bonds using catalytic amounts of osmium tetroxide.
*Lecture presented at the 13th International
Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS-13), Warsaw, Poland, 1-5 July
2000.
** Corresponding author
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