nitrogen nucleophilic substituents, readily undergoes intramolecular nucleophilic displacement to afford azido-substituted heterocyclic compounds. This intramolecular substitution occurs with inversion of configuration at the carbon atom bearing the selenium atom. Starting from acetamido selenides and carbamato selenides, a stereocontrolled synthesis of the vicinal amino alcohol precursor oxazolines and
Oxazolines or oxazolidin-2-ones are produced from the reaction of diphenyl diselenide, ammonium persulfate and trifluoromethanesulfonic acid with alkenes in the presence of MeCN/H2O, NH2CN/H2O or NH2CO2Et.