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Abusa Y, Yox P, Cady SD, Viswanathan G, Opare-Addo J, Smith EA, Mudryk Y, Lebedev OI, Perras FA, Kovnir K. Make Selenium Reactive Again: Activating Elemental Selenium for Synthesis of Metal Selenides Ranging from Nanocrystals to Large Single Crystals. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:22762-22775. [PMID: 37813388 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/11/2023]
Abstract
The inertness of elemental selenium is a significant obstacle in the synthesis of selenium-containing materials at low reaction temperatures. Over the years, several recipes have been developed to overcome this hurdle; however, most of the methods are associated with the use of highly toxic, expensive, and environmentally harmful reagents. As such, there is an increasing demand for the design of cheap, stable, and nontoxic reactive selenium precursors usable in the low-temperature synthesis of transition metal selenides with vast applications in nanotechnology, thermoelectrics, and superconductors. Herein, a novel synthetic route has been developed for activating elemental selenium by using a solvothermal approach. By comprehensive 77Se NMR, Raman, and infrared spectroscopies and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, we show that the activated Se solution contained HSe-, [Se-Se]2-, and Se2- ions, as well as dialkyl selenide (R2Se) and dialkyl diselenide (R-Se-Se-R) species in dynamic equilibrium. This also corresponded to the first observation of naked Se22- in solution. The versatility of the developed Se precursor was demonstrated by the successful synthesis of (i) the polycrystalline room-temperature modification of the β-Ag2Se thermoelectric material; (ii) large single crystals of superconducting β-FeSe; (iii) CdSe nanocrystals with different particle sizes (3-10 nm); (iv) nanosheets of PtSe2; and (v) mono- and dibenzyl selenides and diselenides at room temperature. The simplicity and diversity of the developed Se activation method holds promise for applied and fundamental research.
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- Yao Abusa
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Ames National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Ames National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Ames National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Ames National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Ames National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Laboratoire CRISMAT, ENSICAEN, CNRS UMR 6508, 14050 Caen, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Ames National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Ames National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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Das RP, Singh BG, Aishwarya J, Kumbhare LB, Kunwar A. 3,3'-Diselenodipropionic acid immobilised gelatin gel: a biomimic catalytic nitric oxide generating material for topical wound healing application. Biomater Sci 2023; 11:1437-1450. [PMID: 36602012 DOI: 10.1039/d2bm01964g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) plays a pivotal role in the wound healing process and promotes the generation of healthy endothelium. In this work, a simple method has been developed for fabricating a diselenide grafted gelatin gel, which reduces NO donors such as S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) by glutathione peroxidase-like mechanism to produce NO. Briefly, the process involved covalently conjugating 3,3'-diselenodipropionic acid (DSePA) with gelatin via carbodiimide coupling. The resulting gelatin-DSePA conjugate (G-Se-Se-G) demonstrated NO production upon incubation with SNAP and glutathione (GSH) with the flux of 4.8 ± 0.6 nmol cm-2 min-1 and 1.6 ± 0.1 nmol cm-2 min-1 at 10 min and 40 min, respectively. The G-Se-Se-G recovered even after 5 days of incubation with the reaction mixture retaining catalytic activity up to 74%. Subsequently, G-Se-Se-G was suspended (5% w/v) in water with lecithin (6% w/w of gelatin) and F127 (3% w/w of gelatin) to prepare gel through temperature dependant gelation method. The fabricated G-Se-Se-G gel exhibited desirable rheological characteristics and excellent mechanical stability under storage conditions and did not cause any significant toxicity in normal human keratinocytes (HaCaT) and fibroblast cells (WI38) up to 50 μg ml-1 of selenium equivalent. Finally, mice studies confirmed that topically applied G-Se-Se-G gel and SNAP promoted faster epithelization and collagen deposition at the wound site. In conclusion, the development of a biomimetic NO generating gel with sustained activity and biocompatibility was achieved.
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- Ram P Das
- Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai-400085, India. .,Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai-400094, India
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai-400085, India. .,Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai-400094, India
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai-400085, India. .,Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai-400094, India.,Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Mumbai-410210, India
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- Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai-400085, India
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai-400085, India. .,Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai-400094, India
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Singh BG, Kunwar A. Redox reactions of organoselenium compounds: Implication in their biological activity. Free Radic Res 2021; 55:641-654. [PMID: 33555213 DOI: 10.1080/10715762.2021.1882678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Antioxidant activity of organoselenium compounds belonging to different classes i.e. functionalized aliphatic, aromatic and cyclic selenoethers, are compared on the basis of their ability to scavenge reactive oxygen species like hydroxyl and peroxyl radicals and to exhibit glutathione peroxidase (GPx) like catalytic activity. The comparative analysis has revealed that the antioxidant activity of the organoselenium compounds show direct correlation with the energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and neighboring group participation that stabilizes the reaction intermediate. Finally, structural features responsible for improving the rate of reaction of organoselenium compounds with free radical/molecular oxidants have been discussed on the basis of the compounds screened at our institute.
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- Beena G Singh
- Radiation and Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India.,Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India
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- Radiation and Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India.,Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India
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Shinde RG, Khan AA, Barik A. Formation of two centre three electron bond by hydroxyl radical induced reaction of thiocoumarin: evidence from experimental and theoretical studies. Free Radic Res 2019; 53:629-640. [PMID: 31072168 DOI: 10.1080/10715762.2019.1617417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Radiation chemical studies of thioesculetin (1), a thioketone derivative of coumarin, were performed by both pulse radiolysis technique and DFT calculations. Hydroxyl (•OH) radical reaction with 1 resulted transients absorbing at 320, 360 and 500 nm. To identify the nature of the transients, the reaction was studied with specific one-electron oxidant (N3•) radical, where 360 nm band was absent. The transient absorption at 500 nm was concentration-dependent. The overall impression for •OH radical reaction was that the transient absorbing at 320, 360 and 500 nm was due to sulphur centred monomer radical, hydroxysulfuranyl and dimer radical of 1 respectively. The equilibrium constant between the monomer to dimer radical was 3.75 × 104 M-1. From the transients' redox nature, it was observed that 57 and 24% of •OH radical yielded to oxidising and reducing products respectively. Further, the product analysis by HPLC suggested that the dimer radical disproportionate to esculetin and thioesculetin. DFT energy calculation for all the possible transients revealed that dimer radical has the lowest energy. The HOMO of 1 and its monomer radical suggested that the electron density was localised on the sulphur atom. The bond length between the two sulphur atoms in dimer radical was 2.88 Å which was less than the van der Waals distance. Bond order between the two sulphur atoms was 0.55, suggesting that the bond was two centre three electron (2c-3e). From TD-DFT calculation, the electronic transition of dimer radical was at 479 nm which was in close agreement with the experimental value. The nature of the electronic transition was σ → σ* from a 2c - 3e bond.
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- Rupali G Shinde
- a Department of Chemistry , Savitribai Phule Pune University , Pune , India.,b Radiation and Photochemistry Division , Bhabha Atomic Research Centre , Mumbai , India
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- a Department of Chemistry , Savitribai Phule Pune University , Pune , India
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- b Radiation and Photochemistry Division , Bhabha Atomic Research Centre , Mumbai , India
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Adhikari H, Ghosh R, Mukherjea KK. An oxidodiperoxido vanadium-based artificial nuclease: DNA binding and cleavage studies. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:928-933. [PMID: 30806581 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1587514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
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Singh BG, Kumar P, Phadnis P, Iwaoka M, Priyadarsini KI. Free radical induced selenoxide formation in isomeric organoselenium compounds: the effect of chemical structures on antioxidant activity. NEW J CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj02227a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Formation of selenoxides improves the antioxidant activity of organoselenium compounds and should be considered as an important marker in the design of new selenium based antioxidants.
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- Beena G. Singh
- Radiation & Photochemistry Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Trombay
- Mumbai-400085
- India
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Trombay
- Mumbai-400085
- India
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- Chemistry Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Trombay
- Mumbai-400085
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- School of Science
- Tokai University
- Kitakaname
- Hiratsuka-shi
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Bouchet LM, Argüello JE. Photoinduced One-Electron Oxidation of Aromatic Selenides: Effect of the Structure on the Reversible Dimerization Reaction. J Org Chem 2018; 83:5674-5680. [PMID: 29683656 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b00684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The photochemical one-electron oxidation of alkyl aryl selenides was studied by means of laser flash photolysis (355 nm). Quenching of the sensitizers in their excited state leads to selenide radical cation in the presence of selenium derivatives. The π-type dimer of methyl phenyl selenide radical cation was detected at 630 nm at expenses of the monomeric radical cation (530 nm). The effect of modification of the aryl and alkyl substituents was also studied, resulting that the formation of dimers depends on both, the electronic properties and steric hindrance of the substituents. Both effects, an increase in steric hindrance in the alkyl moiety or the presence of strongly electron donor groups in the aromatic substituent that stabilizes the radical cation, prevent the dimer formation.
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- Lydia M Bouchet
- INFIQC-CONICET-UNC, Dpto. de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas , Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria , X5000HUA Córdoba , Argentina
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- INFIQC-CONICET-UNC, Dpto. de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas , Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria , X5000HUA Córdoba , Argentina
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Kumar PV, Singh BG, Ballal A, Jain VK, Iwaoka M, Priyadarsini KI. Gold nanoparticles (GNP) induced redox modulation in organoselenium compounds: distinction between cyclic vs. linear structures. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra15106j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Structure of organoselenium compounds affects their binding with gold nanoparticles and modulates their redox behaviour and radiation induced oxidative degradation.
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- Pavitra V. Kumar
- Radiation & Photochemistry Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Mumbai – 400 085
- India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Mumbai – 400 085
- India
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- Molecular Biology Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Mumbai – 400 085
- India
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- Chemistry Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Mumbai – 400 085
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- School of Science
- Tokai University
- Hiratsuka-shi
- Japan
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Mumbai – 400 085
- India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute
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