Journal of Chemical Research

Sodium selenite-dimethylsulfoxide: a highly efficient reagent for dehydrogenation

M Lamba, JK Makrandi

Index: Lamba, Mandeep; Makrandi, Jagdish Kumar Journal of Chemical Research, 2008 , # 4 p. 225 - 226

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Abstract

Sodium selenite in dimethylsulfoxide is a highly efficient reagent for dehydrogenation reactions and can be used under both thermal as well as microwave irradiation conditions. Using this reagent benzoins have been dehydrogenated to benzils, flavanones to flavones and 2'-hydroxy chalcones have been converted into flavones by cyclodehydrogenation.