Reaction of Divinyl Selenide with Thiourea.

Earlier it was shown that with thiourea in the presence of equimolar amounts of acids divinyl sulfide forms 2H,6H-2,6-dimethyl-4-amino-1,3,5-dithiazines in the salt form with yields of 70-90%. In the case of other divinyl chalcogenides the formation of similar reaction products could be expected. However, cycloaddition of the isothiuronium salts (in this example with hydrochloric acid) is not observed in the case of divinyl telluride, but the Te-C bond is cleaved with the formation of an aldehyde and of complexes of tellurium with thiourea.