Reductive desulfurization of organosulfur compounds with sodium in liquid ammonia

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/10426509808032455

Greater than 95% sulfur removal was observed when dialkyl mono or polysulfides were treated with Na in liquid ammonia. Polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles were only moderately desulfurized under these conditions while phenylthio derivatives gave thiophenol as the major product and dithiophenols as the minor products.

Full text of DOI:10.1080/10426509808032455

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REDUCTIVE DESULFURIZATION OF
ORGANOSULFUR COMPOUNDS WITH SODIUM
IN LIQUID AMMONIA
Zhengkun Yu a b & John G. Verkade a
a Department of Chemistry , Iowa State University , Iowa, 50011-3111,
USA
b Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ,
Dalian, 116023, P. R. China
Published online: 24 Sep 2006.
To cite this article: Zhengkun Yu & John G. Verkade (1998) REDUCTIVE DESULFURIZATION OF
ORGANOSULFUR COMPOUNDS WITH SODIUM IN LIQUID AMMONIA, Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the
Related Elements, 133:1, 79-82, DOI: 10.1080/10426509808032455
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