Organocatalytic alpha selenylation of aldehydes

ORGN 634

Henrik Sunden, Ramon Rios, riosramon@yahoo.com, and Armando Cordova. Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-10691, Spain
The highly enantioselective organocatalytic á-selenenylation of aldehydes is presented. The reaction gives access to á-phenylselenoaldehydes and â-selenoalcohols in high yields with up to >99% ee.