The insertion of sulfur into the non-activated C - H bond a possible model for penicillin cyclase and biotin synthase

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)79921-7

When cyclohexane is subjected to Gif-type oxidation conditions in the presence of sufficient H₂S, Na₂S or (in Gif^III) S₈, the normal oxidation process is replaced by the formation of dicyclohexyl di- and polysulfides.