What makes selenoenzymes–seen from a chemist's view–so special that they cannot be
substituted by just more analogous or adapted sulfur proteins? This review compiles and …

The chalcogen elements oxygen, sulfur, and selenium are essential constituents of side
chain functions of natural amino acids. Conversely, no structural and biological function has …

An overview of the preparation and synthetic potentialities of functionalized organoselenium
and organotellurium compounds is presented. Various methods to generate selenated or …

A simple and efficient procedure for the synthesis of chiral β-seleno-amines derivatives from
a one-pot indium (I) iodide-mediated aziridine ring opening with diorganoyl diselenides has …

The on water reaction of sodium telluride with electrophiles has been explored. Na2Te,
generated in situ through the rongalite (sodium hydroxymethanesulfinate)‐promoted …

A straightforward and efficient methodology is described to synthesize structurally diverse
diorganyl selenides, sulfides, seleno-and thioesters by using commercially available Zn dust …

Metal-free ring opening reactions of activated and unactivated aziridines with different silyl
chalcogenides are described. Judicious tuning of the reaction conditions enables the …

The synthesis of selenium derivatives of naturally occurring chiral molecules is becoming
increasingly important in recent years. In this context, we describe herein an easy …

The oxidation reaction of L-tellurocystine,[Te2 {CH2CH (NH3+) COO−} 2](4) with H2O2 in
the presence of HBr resulted in the formation of cyclic, zwitterionic organotellurolate (IV) …

By carrying out structural modifications based on the bicyclic peptide structure of
echinomycin, we successfully synthesized various powerful antitumor derivatives. The ring …