Sweet Selenium: Synthesis and Properties of Selenium-Containing Sugars and Derivatives

• Main Authors: Francesca Mangiavacchi (Author), Italo Franco Coelho Dias (Author), Irene Di Lorenzo (Author), Pawel Grzes (Author), Martina Palomba (Author), Ornelio Rosati (Author), Luana Bagnoli (Author), Francesca Marini (Author), Claudio Santi (Author), Eder Joao Lenardao (Author), Luca Sancineto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In the last decades, organoselenium compounds gained interest due to their important biological features. However, the lack of solubility, which characterizes most of them, makes their actual clinical exploitability a hard to reach goal. Selenosugars, with their intrinsic polarity, do not suffer fro...