This is the first of two invited articles reviewing the development of nucleoside-analogue
antiviral drugs, written for a target audience of virologists and other non-chemists, as well as …

Selenium, originally described as a toxin, turns out to be a crucial trace element for life that
appears as selenocysteine and its dimer, selenocystine. From the point of view of drug …

Recent, many methods have been reported for the synthesis of selenium-containing
bioactive scaffolds because of their interesting reactivity and potential pharmaceutical …

Organochalcogen compounds containing C–S/Se bond are motifs frequently found in
various natural products, bioactive compounds, as well as functional materials. On the other …

Achieving advances in the development of clean and efficient synthetic routes has become
an important aim in research. In recent years, the search for new sustainable methodologies …

Selenium-containing heterocycles are a kind of important organic molecules, which are
widely used in medicine, agrochemicals, organic materials and other fields. Therefore, the …

Selenosugars are a group of sugar derivatives of great structural diversity (eg, molar
masses, selenium oxidation state, and selenium binding), obtained as a result of …

Chiral tetrahydrothiophenes and tetrahydroselenophenes are highly useful structural units.
Described here is a new catalytic asymmetric approach for their synthesis. With a suitable …

In the last decades, organoselenium compounds gained interest due to their important
biological features. However, the lack of solubility, which characterizes most of them, makes …

In the recent years, an increasing attention has been given to the biological activities exerted
by organoselenium compounds. In 1984, Sies reported for the first time the ability of ebselen …