Complex formation between selenium and methylmercury.
Methylmercury, after incubation at 3k7 degrees C and pH 7.0 with selenite in the presence of rat erythrocytes, can be extracted into benzene as an unstable 2 : 1 complex with selenium. The same complex, possibly bis-methylmercury selenide, is formed when methylmercury is treated with hydrogen selenide at pH 7.0 in the absence of erythrocytes.
D000818:Animals; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D004912:Erythrocytes; D008767:Methylmercury Compounds / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D012643:Selenium / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D018036:Selenium Compounds
D008767:Methylmercury Compounds; D018036:Selenium Compounds; D012643:Selenium; C026372:hydrogen selenide