A one-pot, efficient, and odorless synth
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Habib Firouzabadi; Nasser Iranpoor; Mohammad Abbasi
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Article
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2010
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Elsevier Science
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French
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Primary, secondary, tertiary, allylic, and benzylic halides are converted efficiently into symmetric disulfides in high yields using thiourea as the sulfur atom source. The reactions are odorless and are performed at 30-35 ยฐC in wet PEG-200 using MnO 2 as an oxidant.