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ReviewFuture medicinal chemistry2025

Indole-selenide derivatives: recent advances in design, synthesis and future prospects for therapeutic applications.

Yunjun Chen, Hongtao Xu, Wei Hou

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Review in Future medicinal chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Yunjun ChenInstitute of Drug Development and Chemical Biology, College of Pharmaceutical Science and Institute of Drug Development and Chemical Biology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
Hongtao XuShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Wei HouInstitute of Drug Development and Chemical Biology, College of Pharmaceutical Science and Institute of Drug Development and Chemical Biology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, Selenium (Se) has become an emerging versatile player in medicinal chemistry. Indole scaffolds, known as a "privileged structure," are widely used in drug design due to their unique physicochemical properties and broad biological activities. Indole selenide compounds, which integrate the two important elements of selenium and indole, represent a new and significant structural type and have been reported to exhibit various biological activities, including antitumor, antioxidant and P-glycoprotein inhibitory activities. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in the synthesis, design and biological activity studies of indole-selenide compounds. We also provide perspectives regarding the challenges in indole-selenide-based medicinal chemistry and future research directions.

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Antineoplastic AgentsAntioxidantsDrug DesignIndolesOrganoselenium CompoundsAnimalsHumansMolecular StructureNeoplasmsAntineoplastic AgentsAntioxidantsIndolesOrganoselenium Compoundsanti-tumorclick chemistryindole-selenideparallel synthesisP-glycoprotein inhibitorSeleniumselenium-nitrogen exchangeselenylation

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PMID40947744
PMCPMC12456862

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