37773-23-2Relevant articles and documents
Click Reaction of Selenols with Isocyanates: Rapid Access to Selenocarbamates as Peroxide-Switchable Reservoir of Thiol-Peroxidase-Like Catalysts
Capperucci, Antonella,Petrucci, Alessandra,Faggi, Cristina,Tanini, Damiano
, p. 4256 - 4263 (2021)
Selenols react with isocyanates under mild catalyst-free conditions to generate selenocarbamates in good yield and with high selectivity over potentially competing nucleophilic additions. The methodology enables the incorporation of a wide variety of functional groups providing access to a broad array of densely functionalised selenocarbamates. In the presence of competing heteroatom-centered nucleophiles, isocyanates selectively couple with selenols. Selenocarbamates exhibited thiol-peroxidase-like properties, enabling the reduction of hydrogen peroxide at the expense of thiols, which are converted into the corresponding disulfides. A series of control experiments suggested that the catalytic mechanism proceeds through a pathway, involving a H2O2-promoted transcarbamoylation reaction leading to a thiocarbamate with concomitant releasing of catalytically active selenolate anions. By undergoing peroxide-driven thiol-selenol exchange, selenocarbamates behave as equivalents of selenolate anions with thiol-peroxidase-like activity. (Figure presented.).
Selenols: a new class of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors
Angeli, Andrea,Tanini, Damiano,Nocentini, Alessio,Capperucci, Antonella,Ferraroni, Marta,Gratteri, Paola,Supuran, Claudiu T.
supporting information, p. 648 - 651 (2019/01/25)
Stable aryl selenols were obtained through a convenient procedure. Selenols represent a new chemotype acting as carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (CAIs), inhibiting four human isoforms, CAs I, II, VII and the tumor-associated CA IX. X-ray crystallographic, physical and computational studies provided insights into the binding mode of this conceptually new class of CAIs.
Simple and catalyst-free method for the synthesis of diaryl selenides by reactions of arylselenols and arenediazonium salts
Balaguez, Renata A.,Ricordi, Vanessa Gentil,Freitas, Camilo S.,Perin, Gelson,Schumacher, Ricardo F.,Alves, Diego
supporting information, p. 1057 - 1061 (2015/02/19)
We describe here a simple and catalyst-free method to synthesize diaryl selenides by reaction of arenediazonium tetrafluoroborate salts with arylselenols, generated in situ by using diaryl diselenides and hypophosphorous acid (H3PO2), using THF as solvent. This is a direct nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) reaction performed with diaryl diselenides and arenediazonium salts bearing electron-withdrawing and electron-donating groups affording the corresponding diaryl selenides in moderated to good yields.
