Selenium and Tellurium Chemistry: From Small Molecules to Biomolecules and Materials

By J. Derek Woollins

Book Overview

Organic Phosphorus-Selenium Chemistry.- New Selenium Electrophiles and Their Reactivity.- Redox Chemistry of Sulfur, Selenium and Tellurium Compounds.- Redox and Related Coordination Chemistry of PNP- and PCP-Bridged Selenium and Tellurium-Centred Ligands.- Synthesis, Structures, Bonding, and Ligand Chemistry of Imidoselenium and -tellurium Compounds.- A New Class of Paramagnetics: 1,2,5-Chalcogenadiazolidyl Salts as Potential Building Blocks for Molecular Magnets and Conductors.- Organotelluroxanes.- Recent developments in the Lewis acidic chemistry of selenium and tellurium halides and pseudo-halides.- Selenium and Tellurium Containing Precursors for Semiconducting Material.- Synthesis and Transformations of 2- and 3 hydroxy-selenophenes and 2-and 3-amino- selenophenes and their transformations.- Activation of Peroxides by Organoselenium Catalysts: a Synthetic and Biological Perspective.- Selenium and human health: snapshots from the frontiers of selenium biomedicine.- Metal Complexes Containing P-Se Containing Ligands.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642436986
• ISBN13: 9783642436987
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"