Sulfonyl chlorides are extensively used in the production of detergents, ion-exchange resins, elastomers, pharmaceuticals, dyes, herbicides, as semiproducts in the synthesis of sulfonic acids esters. Industrial and laboratory scale production of sulfonyl chlorides is based on reactions of aliphatic hydrocarbons with sulfuryl halides or with a mixture of sulfur dioxide and chlorine, on the oxidative chlorination of thiols, sulfides, disulfides; on the oxidation of ...