Visible-Light Mediated Diarylselenylative Cyclization of 1,6-Enynes

J Org Chem. 2021 Jan 1;86(1):1273-1280. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c02529. Epub 2020 Dec 7.

Abstract

We herein described a selenylative cyclization reaction of enynes by the utilization of diselenides as radical sources. The visible-light irradiation of the reaction mixture enables the generation of the selenium atom radical to trigger the radical addition/cyclization/selenation sequences. Both terminal alkyne and internal alkyne derived 1,6-enynes were tested and suitable for the current synthetic protocol, delivering various kinds of selenium-containing cycles in good yields.