S. Ford et al., Synthesis of mono- and di-nuclear palladium diselenolenes from bis(cycloalkeno)-1,4-diselenins: X-ray crystal structure of [Pd(C7H10Se2)(PBu3)(2)], NEW J CHEM, 23(8), 1999, pp. 811-813
The reaction between [Pd-2(dba)(3)] (dba = dibenzylideneacetone), tributylp
hosphine, and a bis(cycloalkeno)-1,4-diselenin leads to either a mononuclea
r [Pd{SeC(R-1)=C(R-2)Se}(PBu3)(2)], or a dinuclear [Pd-2{SeC(R-1)=C(R-2)Se}
(2)(PBu3)(2)] diselenolene (R-1-R-2 = (CH2)(n); n = 4, 5, 6) depending on t
he stoichiometry employed; the structure of the monomeric product with n =
5 has been determined by X-ray crystallography.