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Phenylselenyl bromide-induced cyclisation of gamma- and delta-unsatura
ted aldoxime and ketoxime O-allyl and O-benzyl ethers is followed by a
slow fragmentation furnishing cyclic imines which are readily reduced
to pyrrolidines, piperidines or tetrahydroisoquinolines by sodium bor
ohydride; dialkenyl oximes yield quinolizidines by an analogous sequen
ce terminating in a mercury(II)-induced cyclisation.