“…As part of our ongoing studies on the conformational and electronic characteristics of some -thiocarbonyl, -bis-thiocarbonyl and -thio--oxacarbonyl compounds, e.g. N,Ndiethyl-2-[(4 0 -substituted)phenylthio]acetamides (Vinhato et al, 2013), 1-methyl-3-phenylsulfonyl-2-piperidones (Zukerman-Schpector et al, 2008), 3,3-bis[(4 0 -substituted) phenylsulfanyl]-1-methyl-2-piperidones (Olivato et al, 2013), 2alkylthio-2-alkylsulfinyl-acetophenones and 2-alkylthio-2phenylsulfonyl-acetophenones, 2-alkylsulfinyl-2-alkylsulfonylacetophenones (Distefano et al, 1996), 2-methoxy-2-[(4 0substituted) phenylsulfanyl]-acetophenones (Zukerman-Schpector et al, 2015;Caracelli et al, 2015) and 2-methoxy-2-(phenylselanyl)-(4 0 -substituted)acetophenones (Traesel et al, 2018), utilizing infrared spectroscopy, computational chemistry and X-ray diffraction methods, the title compound (I) was synthesized and characterized. The primary motivation behind this work is the search for selenium/sulfur-containing compounds with anti-inflammatory activity that could be selective COX-2 inhibitors (Cerqueira et al, 2015(Cerqueira et al, , 2017.…”