Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Pyrolysis of Sulfites. I. Symmetrical Sulfites

CC Price, G Berti

Index: Price; Berti Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1954 , vol. 76, p. 1207,1208

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Abstract

The pyrolysis of a number of symmetrical sulfite esters of primary and secondary alcohols has been studied. Decomposition to evolve sulfur dioxide begins at temperatures ranging from 130'for a-methylbenzyl sulfite to 250 O for phenethyl sulfite. The urinciual mode of decomDosition is to form olefin and alcohol. Formation of ether was observed onlv in two cases as a mindr pro& of the reaction. In the case of n-amyl sulfite