Synthesis and Applications of Organic Selenols

The synthesis and the study of organoselenium compounds have received much attention over past decades. Selenium-containing organic molecules are widely used in synthesis, materials science, medicinal chemistry. Selenium – more specifically amino acid selenocysteine, bearing a selenol (SeH) moiety is present at least 25 human protein families, whose biological functions not been completely identified. Amongst variety compounds, selenols versatile class easily undergoing broad array useful transformations. Because unique properties SeH group, chemistry has important applications chemical sciences, spanning from to biology. This review summarises currently available methodologies for highlights sciences