Modeling the Reduction of Hydrogen Peroxide by Glutathione Peroxidase Mimics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Theoretical calculations have been performed on three model reactions representing the reduction of hydrogen peroxide by ebselen, ebselen selenol, and ebselen diselenide. The reaction surfaces have been investigated at the B3PW91/6-311G(2df,p) level, and single-point energies were calculated using the 6-311++G(3df,3pd) basis set. Solvent effects were included implicitly with the conductor-like polarizable continuum model and in one case with explicit inclusion of three water molecules. Mechanistic information is gained from investigating the critical points using the quantum theory of atoms in molecules. The barriers for the reduction of hydrogen peroxide with the ebselen, ebselen selenol, and ebselen diselenide models are 56.7, 53.4, and 35.3 kcal/mol, respectively, suggesting that ebselen diselenide may be the most active antioxidant in the ebselen GPx redox pathway. Results are also compared to that of the sulfur analogues of the model compounds.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".