Owing to the importance of antioxidants in the protection of both natural and man-made
materials, a large variety of testing methods have been proposed and applied. These …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT), as one of the noninvasive clinical cancer phototherapies,
suffers from the key drawback associated with hypoxia at the tumor microenvironment …

Organoselenium compounds have found such wide utility because of their effects on an
extraordinary number of very different reactions, including many carbon-carbon bond …

Conspectus As scientists in recent decades have discovered, selenium is an important trace
element in life. The element is now known to play an important role in biology as an …

The element selenium was discovered in 1818 by the Swedish chemist Berzelius and was
named after the Greek goddess of the moon, Selene. 1 In biology, selenium was long …

Antimicrobial resistance is widely recognized as a grave threat to global health in the 21st
century, since the past decades have seen a dramatic increase in human-pathogenic …

Oxidative stress is caused by an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen
species (ROS) and the biological system's ability to detoxify these reactive intermediates …

In 1836 the first organoselenium compound, diethyl selenide, was prepared by Löwig, 1 and
it was isolated in the pure form in 1869. 2 Early selenium chemistry involved the synthesis of …

The advance in the area of synthesis and reactivity of organoselenium, as well as the
discovery that selenium was the cause of severe intoxication episodes of livestock in the …

Organoselenium compounds find applications in organic synthesis, materials synthesis,
ligand chemistry and biologically relevant processes. This review deals with the use of …