文摘
A novel arsenic-selenium solution species was synthesized by reacting equimolar sodium selenite and sodiumdimethylarsinate with 10 mol equiv of glutathione (pH 7.5) in aqueous solution. The solution species showed asingle 77Se NMR resonance at 112.8 ppm. Size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) using an inductively coupledplasma atomic emission spectrometer (ICP-AES) as the simultaneous arsenic-, selenium-, sulfur-, and carbon-specific detector revealed an arsenic-selenium moiety with an As:Se molar ratio of 1:2. Electrospray ionizationmass spectrometry (ESI-MS) of the chromatographically purified compound showed a molecular mass peak at m/z263 in the negative ion mode. Fragmentation of the parent ion (ESI-MS-MS) produced (CH3)2As- and Se2- fragments.Arsenic and selenium extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (EXAFS) of the purified species revealedtwo As-C interactions at 1.943 Å and two As-Se interactions at 2.279 Å. On the basis of these results this novelsolution species is identified as the dimethyldiselenoarsinate anion.