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Guoxiong Hua1, Amy L Fuller, Alexandra M Z Slawin
1Department of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9ST, Scotland.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C(14)H(12)Br(2)Se(2), the Se-Se bond length [2.3034 (9) Å] is similar to those in diphenyl diselenide [2.3066 (7) and 2.3073 (10) Å] and shorter than that in 1,8-diselenona-phthalene [2.0879 (8)Å]. The mol-ecule adopts a classical gauche conformation.
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