Methylsulfur Trichloride1

KR Brower, IB Douglass

Index: Brower; Douglass Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1951 , vol. 73, p. 5787

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Citation Number: 28

Abstract

Methyl disulfide reacts with chlorine at-10 to-20'to form crystalline methylsulfur trichloride, CH&& in nearly quantitative yield. The new compound is unstable and decomposes on standing at room temperature into chloromethanesulfenyl chloride, CICHzSCl, as a principal product. It is hydrolyzed by water and weakly alkaline solutions into methane-suliinic acid. Phenyl disulfide is chlorinated to the corresponding sulfenyl chloride by methylsulfur ...