“…8 Although the synthesis and structure of 1,3,2,4-diselenadiboretane, a dimer of a selenoxoborane, has already been reported by Nöth and coworkers, no description was given for the intermediary selenoxoborane. 9 The reaction of an overcrowded trihydroborate 2, synthesized by the reaction of (Tbt)B(OMe) 2 1 with LiAlH 4 , 2 with titanocene pentaselenide followed by treatment with Ph 2 SnCl 2 gave a novel five-membered boracycle, 1,2,4,3,5-triselenastannaborolane 3, as yellow crystals in 20% yield from 1 (Scheme 1). Although we have attempted the thermolysis of 3 in the hope of cycloreversion into the selenoxoborane (Tbt)BNSe, no change was observed even at 150 °C in the presence of 2,3-dimethylbuta-1,3-diene as a trapping reagent for a selenoxoborane.…”