A novel selenium-containing compound, a method of producing the selenium-containing compound, an analysis method using the selenium-containing compound, and use of the selenium-containing compound as an antioxidant, are disclosed. A novel selenium-containing compound shown by any of chemical formulas 1 to 4 is obtained by extracting a selenium-containing compound from a sample using an organic solvent or water, and purifying the selenium-containing compound. The novel selenium-containing compound may be used for a novel analysis method, or may be used as an antioxidant.
Total Synthesis and Functional Characterization of Selenoneine
作者:David Lim、Dirk Gründemann、Florian P. Seebeck
DOI:10.1002/anie.201908967
日期:2019.10.14
interact with cellular processes. In this report we describe the chemical synthesis of selenoneine and other 2-selenoimidazoles. With synthetic selenoneine at hand we discovered a set of reactivities that distinguish selenoneine from ergothioneine, showing that the two compounds can fill distinct functional niches. Synthetic access to 2-selenoimidazoles should pave the way to explore the pharmaceutical potential