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CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
Volume 4, Issue 6, Pages 974-983Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.200800483
Keywords
antioxidants; catalysis; redox chemistry; selenium; thiol exchange
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- Department of Science and Technology (DST). New Delhi, India
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
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A series of secondary and tertiary amide-substituted diselenides were synthesized and studied for their GPx-like antioxidant activities using H2O2 Cum-OOH, and tBuOOH as substrates and PhSH as thiol co-substrate. The effect of substitution at the free -NH group of the amide moiety in the sec-amide-based diselenides on GPx activity was analyzed by detailed experimental and theoretical methods. It is observed that substitution at the free -NH group significantly enhances the GPx-like activities of the sec-amide-based diselenides, mainly by reducing the Se center dot center dot center dot O nonbonded interactions. The reduction in strength of the Se center dot center dot center dot O interaction upon introduction of N,N-dialkyl substituents not only prevents the undesired thiol exchange reactions, but also reduces the stability of selenenyl sulfide intermediates. This leads to a facile disproportionation of the selenenyl sulfide to the corresponding diselenide, which enhances the catalytic activity. The mechanistic investigations indicate that the reactivity of diselenides having sec- or tert-amide moieties with PhSH is extremely slow; indicating that the first step of the catalytic cycle involves the reaction between the diselenides and peroxide to produce the corresponding selenenic and seleninic acids.
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