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SUBMITTER: Yan D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6191425 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20181016 1
Antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase (GPx) decomposes hydroperoxides by utilizing the different redox chemistry of the selenium and sulfur. Here, we report a Se-catalysed para-amination of phenols while, in contrast, the reactions with sulfur donors are stoichiometric. A catalytic amount of phenylselenyl bromide smoothly converts N-aryloxyacetamides to N-acetyl p-aminophenols. When the para position was substituted (for example, with tyrosine), the dearomatization 4,4-disubstituted cyclodie ...[more]