Rapid addition of a tertiary amine to tin(iv) chloride-selenoacetal mixtures leads to the corresponding vinyl selenides in good yield, whereas slow addition of the amine base gives aldol condensation products. ... Selenium-stabilised carbocationic species have proved valu- able electrophiles in carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. 1 However, carbenium ions bearing heteroatomic substituents on the positively charged carbon may follow other reaction paths, depending ...
[Oesapay, K.; Delhalle, J.; Nsunda, K. M.; Rolli, E.; Houriet, R.; Hevesi, L. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1989 , vol. 111, # 14 p. 5028 - 5036]