H. Abe et al., CONVENIENT TRANSFORMATION OF BENZYL ALCOHOL INTO ITS CORRESPONDING SELENIDE USING THE SELENOLATE ANION-ALUMINUM CHLORIDE COMBINATION SYSTEM, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 44(12), 1996, pp. 2223-2226
Treatment of benzyl alcohol with a new reagent system, benzene- or met
haneselenolate anion-aluminum chloride, yielded the corresponding sele
nide. The one-pot conversion of benzaldehyde into benzyl selenide was
also achieved by this system.