Chlorination of Dimethyl Sulfide and Some of Its Derivatives with Sulfuryl Chloride and Thionyl Chloride1

WE Truce, GH Birum, ET McBee

Index: Truce et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1952 , vol. 74, p. 3594,3597

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Citation Number: 97

Abstract

Sulfuryl chloride and thionyl chloride have been found to be new chlorinating agents for alkyl sulfides. All nine of the possible chlorinated dimethyl sulfides have been prepared by chlorination of dimethyl sulfide and trithiane with sulfuryl chloride. Thionyl chloride is a less vigorous chlorinating agent than sulfuryl chloride, but it affords good yields of mono-, di-and trichlorcdimethyl sulfides from dimethyl sulfide, and almost a quantitative yield of a, a'- ...