Artificial selenoenzymes: designed and redesigned

X Huang, X Liu, Q Luo, J Liu, J Shen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes, highly evolved machinery developed by nature, catalyse reactions with formidable
efficiency and specificity under mild conditions. Considerable efforts have been devoted for …

[HTML][HTML] Catalytic application of selenium and tellurium compounds as glutathione peroxidase enzyme mimetics

EE Alberto, V Nascimento, AL Braga - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2010 - SciELO Brasil
This review covers the past decade of intensive research on the design, synthesis and
screening of organoselenides and tellurides as catalyst able to mimic the activity of the …

Oxidative polymerization in living cells

Y Dai, T Li, Z Zhang, Y Tan, S Pan… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Intracellular polymerization is an emerging technique that can potentially modulate cell
behavior, but remains challenging because of the complexity of the cellular environment …

Diselenides and allyl selenides as glutathione peroxidase mimetics. Remarkable activity of cyclic seleninates produced in situ by the oxidation of allyl ω-hydroxyalkyl …

TG Back, Z Moussa - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2003 - ACS Publications
A series of aliphatic diselenides and selenides containing coordinating substituents was
tested for glutathione peroxidase (GPx)-like catalytic activity in a model system in which the …

Intracellular hyperbranched polymerization for circumventing cancer drug resistance

C Liu, B Xianyu, Y Dai, S Pan, T Li, H Xu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymerization inside living cells provides chemists with a multitude of possibilities to
modulate cell activities. Considering the advantages of hyperbranched polymers, such as a …

GPx-Like activity of selenides and selenoxides: Experimental evidence for the involvement of hydroxy perhydroxy selenane as the active species

V Nascimento, EE Alberto, DW Tondo… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The reaction mechanism of the GPx-like oxidation of PhSH with H2O2 catalyzed by
selenoxides proceeds via formation of the hydroxy perhydroxy selenane, which is a stronger …

Tetravalent Spiroselenurane Catalysts: Intramolecular Se···N Chalcogen Bond-Driven Catalytic Disproportionation of H2O2 to H2O and O2 and Activation of I2 and …

M Batabyal, A Upadhyay, R Kadu… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chalcogen-bonding interactions have recently gained considerable attention in the field of
synthetic chemistry, structure, and bonding. Here, three organo-spiroselenuranes, having a …

o-Hydroxylmethylphenylchalcogens: Synthesis, Intramolecular Nonbonded Chalcogen···OH Interactions, and Glutathione Peroxidase-like Activity

SK Tripathi, U Patel, D Roy, RB Sunoj… - The Journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The synthesis and characterization of a series of organochalcogen (Se, Te) compounds
derived from benzyl alcohol 13 are described. The synthesis of the key precursor …

Synthesis, properties, and photodynamic properties in vitro of heavy-chalcogen analogues of tetramethylrosamine

MR Detty, PN Prasad, DJ Donnelly… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2004 - Elsevier
Thio and seleno analogues of tetramethylrosamine were prepared by the directed-
metalation/cyclization of the corresponding N, N-diethyl 2-(3 …

A convenient and efficient copper-catalyzed synthesis of unsymmetrical and symmetrical diaryl chalcogenides from arylboronic acids in ethanol at room temperature

A Kumar, S Kumar - Tetrahedron, 2014 - Elsevier
A simple and convenient approach for the synthesis of unsymmetrical diaryl chalcogenides
(Te, Se, and S) has been developed by copper-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of …