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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 23.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2020 Aug 30;59(36):3300–3315. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00608

Figure 10: Lability of carbon-selenium bonds in relationship to a carbonyl carbon.

Figure 10:

(left panel) Cleavage of a selenoester by a thiolate. (middle panel) reduction of an α-selenoketone by a thiolate. (right panel) β-syn selenoxide elimination or reverse Michael reaction (RM) results in cleavage of the Cβ–Se bond.