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 …

Selenium-based methods in synthetic chemistry have developed rapidly over the past years
and are now offering highly useful tools for organic synthesis. Filling the gap for a …

Selenium (Se) as a chemical element was discovered by Swedish chemist Berzelius 180
years ago. Since then, many publications have appeared describing its chemical properties …

The similarity in the chemical properties of sulfur and selenium has tempted medical
chemists for many years to prepare, for comparative purposes, a wide variety of selenium …

The use of organoselenium reagents as catalysts is a common thread that runs through the
chapters of this book, introducing important aspects of the modern organoselenium …

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

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 …

The chemistry of Se suggests that, in biological systems, it is most likely present as the
selenol (selenomercaptan) R-SeH, or, as the Se ether analogous to sulfur in the amino acid …

The importance of selenium as essential trace element is today generally recognized. The
major biological form of this element is represented by the selenocysteine, incorporated into …

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 …