Recent Progress in the Selenocyclization Reactions with Organic Selenides
Ying Xu, Chen Li, Jianping Meng, Yuling Huang, Jiyuan Fu, Bing Liu, Yingjie Liu, Ning Chen
Abstract
Organic selenides are a kind of important molecules, which are widely used in medicine, agricultural chemicals, organic materials and catalysis, the introduction of selenium atom into organic molecules is of great significance in the synthetic chemistry. Heterocyclic compounds are key skeletons involved in a variety of bioactive molecules, therefore, the development of new methods for the synthesis of selenium-containing heterocyclic derivatives has attracted much attentions. The recent progress in this rapidly growing area, including metal catalysis, electrochemical catalysis, visible-light catalysis, organocatalysis, and other selenocyclization types, is highlighted with an emphasis on the scope and the mechanisms of these different reactions.