In the title mol-ecule, C(10)H(17)PSe, the P atom has a distorted tetra-hedral environment resulting in an effective cone angle of 165°. The benzene ring makes dihedral angles of 70.04 (8) and 77.28 (8)° with the phenyl rings, while the dihedral angle between the phenyl rings is 62.95 (8)°. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by C-H⋯π inter-actions.

A simple and efficient protocol to prepare divinyl selenides has been developed by the regio- and stereoselective addition of sodium selenide species to aryl alkynes. The nucleophilic species was generates in situ, from the reaction of elemental selenium with NaBH₄, utilizing PEG-400 as the solvent. Several divinyl selenides were obtained in moderate to excellent yields with selectivity for the...

Cadmium selenide nanowires in the wurtzite bulk phase, connected to gold electrodes are studied using local density approximation. The short wire is fully metalized by metal-induced gap states. For longer wires, a gap similar to that in bare cadmium selenide nanowires is observed near the center while sub-gap structure emerges near the metal-semiconductor nanocontact. This behavior is attribute...

We perform in this paper a kinetic study of the photoelectrochemical responses of nanoporous thin photoactive films. The films were fabricated by by a layer-by-layer assembly of positively charged polyelectrolytes (poly-l-Lysine, pLys) and negatively charged semiconductor nanoparticles (NPs) on a carboxylic acid terminated alkanethiol-modified gold electrode. Two types of NPs were used to build...

The final urinary excretion product of selenium detoxification is trimethylselenonium ion. An assay has been developed for the enzyme, S-adenosylmethionine:thioether S-methyltransferase, responsible for this final methylation reaction. This assay employed high pressure liquid chromatography separation and quantitation of the trimethylselenonium ion produced by thioether methyltransferase acting...

We previously reported that water-soluble cyclic selenides can mimic the antioxidative function of glutathione peroxidase (GPx) in water through a simple catalytic cycle, in which the selenide (>Se) is oxidized by H₂O₂ to the selenoxide (>Se=O) and the selenoxide is reduced by a thiol back to the selenide. In methanol, however, the GPx-like activity could not be explained by this simple scenari...