Novel water-soluble diorganyl tellurides with thiol peroxidase and antioxidant activity

T Kanda, L Engman, IA Cotgreave…

Index: Kanda, Takahiro; Engman, Lars; Cotgreave, Ian A.; Powis, Garth Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1999 , vol. 64, # 22 p. 8161 - 8169

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Abstract

Novel water-soluble diaryl tellurides, alkyl aryl tellurides, and dialkyl tellurides carrying sulfopropyl groups were prepared and found to possess potent peroxide decomposing and chain-breaking antioxidative capacity. The dilithium, disodium, dipotassium, and bis- tetramethylammonium salts of bis (4-hydroxyphenyl) telluride (4) were treated with 2.3 equiv of 1, 3-propanesultone in aqueous tert-butyl alcohol to give the corresponding salts 5 of ...