Novel Reduction of Chlorine Adducts of Aryl and Alkyl Selenides With Dimethyl Sulfoxide

Abstract

The adducts of chlorine with diaryl selenides such as selenanthrene, diphenyl selenide, and selenoxanthone have been found to be reduced to the corresponding selenides in dimethyl sulfoxide forming chloromethyl methyl sulfoxide and hydrogen chloride. Similarly, dimethyl selenide dichloride was reduced to dimethyl selenide in the presence of a base.