Abstract
The discovery in the early sixties of the fundamental role that selenium plays in many living systems has led to investigate the chemical mechanisms of action of the most important selenoenzymes. These mechanisms together with the possibility to develop biomimetic molecules to be used as useful catalysts in green synthetic protocols will be explored in this chapter.
Keywords: ROS, Antioxidant, Selenoenzymes, Oxidative stress, Glutathione Peroxidase, Prooxidants, Oxidation, Selenolate, Selenyl radical, EPR spectroscopy.
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Caterina Tidei, Claudio Santi ;Selenium and “Bio-Logic” Catalysis: New Bioinspired Catalytic Reactions, Organoselenium Chemistry: Between Synthesis and Biochemistry (2014) 1: 345. https://doi.org/10.2174/9781608058389114010014
DOI https://doi.org/10.2174/9781608058389114010014 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |