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The authors were asked by the Editors of ACS Chemical Biology to write an article titled
“Why Nature Chose Selenium” for the occasion of the upcoming bicentennial of the …

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Selenium is a member of the group 16 elements (O, S, Se, Te and radioactive Po),
collectively known as chalcogens. It was discovered in 1817 by JJ Berzelius in the reddish …

There are no two main-group elements that exhibit more similar physical and chemical
properties than sulfur and selenium. Nonetheless, Nature has deemed both essential for life …

BIOLOGICAL cycles such as exist for carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur are f1mdamentally
similar; within each there occur organisms which reduce the most oxidized form of the …

Chalcogen-nitrogen chemistry involves the study of compounds that exhibit a linkage
between nitrogen and sulfur, selenium or tellurium atoms. Since the publication of A Guide …

Covering: 1934 to early 2002. The biochemistry of selenium-containing natural products,
including selenoproteins, is reviewed up to May 2002. Particular emphasis is placed on the …

Since the finding that selenium is an essential micronutrient for our life as well as the
discovery of selenocysteine (Sec) as the twenty-first proteinogenic amino acid that is …

Our knowledge of the chemistry of selenium and tellurium has seen significant progress in
the last few decades. This monograph comprises contributions from leading scientists on the …