“…Finally, we further enlarge the scope of this procedure with variously substituted diselenides allowing the synthesis of organoselenides 8a-c from diselenides 6a-c and diselenides 6a,b,d,e gave N-(4-(benzylselanyl)phenyl)acetamides 9a-d, bearing two selenated moieties onto the same molecular skeleton ( Figure 2). Additionally, on the basis of our recent findings on the reactivity of selenols with elecrophiles [17][18][19][20], we also evaluated an alternative and milder approach to 2-seleno-acetamides 7-9. Thus, aryl-and alkyl-selenols 10a-d were efficiently deprotonated by using a Cs 2 CO 3 /TBAI system [21,22] and then treated with 2-chloroacetamides 2a-c to afford the corresponding selenium-containing acetamides 7-9 in good yield (Scheme 1).…”