Selenium and selenocompounds have attracted the attention and the efforts of scientists
worldwide due to their promising potential applications in cancer prevention and/or …

Selenium is an essential trace element for animals and its role in the chemistry of life relies
on a unique functional group: the selenol (–SeH) group. The selenol group participates in …

Background: The chemistry of organoselenium reagents provides an asset for organic
synthesis. The versatility of these reagents as electrophiles and nucleophiles makes them …

This review summarizes advancement in the field of pyridyl-based organochalcogen ligands
in terms of their coordination behavior and biological applications. Pyridylchalcogen …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) is harmful to our health, and SOD, CAT, and GPX are the
major antioxidant enzymes that defend us from effects of ROS. In medicine, food, and dairy …

Chalcogen-bonding interactions have recently gained considerable attention in the field of
synthetic chemistry, structure, and bonding. Here, three organo-spiroselenuranes, having a …

During attempts to prepare spirodithiaselenuranes as GPx mimetics, a series of unexpected
dimeric macrocycles was obtained, each containing two selenide and two disulfide moieties …

Copper-catalyzed direct selenation of substituted 2-bromo-N-phenylbenzamide substrates
with elemental selenium powder provided a series of methoxy-substituted isoselenazolones …

Selenium compounds play an important role in redox homeostasis in living organisms. One
of their major functions is to suppress the harmful effects of hydrogen peroxide …

We report here our results on the application of ynamides as substrates in the reactions with
diorganyl dichalcogenides and iron (III) chloride to give selectively three different types of …