The reduction of organic compounds of sulfur by metals in liquid ammonia
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1952
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute
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- A systematic study of the reduction of organic sulfur compounds by different metals in liquid ammonia is reported for the first time.
- A metal with a high half-cell potential favors a greater extent of reduction than a lower potential metal.
- The greater the concentration of ammonium ion as a proton donor, the greater will be the evolution of hydrogen, and the lower will be the extent of reduction.
- A mechanism for the reduction of organic sulfur compounds by metals in ammonia is presented.
- A new procedure for the quantitative removal and determination of hydrogen sulfide in mercaptans was developed.
- A new synthesis for allyl mercaptan was found.
- The formation of a resin believed to be a thiophene polymer of the formula (C₄H₄S)x is reported.