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Why do heavy metals like mercury and lead have an affinity for sulfur or sulfur compounds?
Many of the heavy metals such as mercury, lead, thallium, cadmium, and arsenic exert toxic effects largely by binding to or otherwise interfering with organic sulfur compounds or groups in the body. ...
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Can electrostatic interaction affect nucleophilic attack by thiolate anion
Suppose a protein side chain has a $\ce{-SH}$ group which is partially deprotonated to thiolate anion $\ce{-S -}$. This thiolate can perform a nucleophilic attack on a certain substrate.
Will the ...
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Dipole and size of a thioether relative to hydrocarbon
I am an enzymologist and I would like to check whether the consensus of how enzymes tell thioethers from hydrocarbons on substrates is a fact or fiction.
So are any of these wrong?
S–π ...
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