Broad substrate scope
This electrochemical selenation approach avoids transition-metal catalysts and external oxidants, enabling mild conditions and high functional group tolerance across diverse alkene substrates.
Wang, Renjie · Nana, Zhang · Yonghong, Zhang · Bin, Wang · Xia, Yu · Sun, Kai · Jin, Weiwei · Xinyong, Li · Liu, Chenjiang
Green Chemistry 2023
118 examples
gram-scale synthesis
applicable to 1-aryl-1,3-dienes and unactivated aliphatic alkenes