Disulfide catalyst

Another advantage to the use of a thiol additive is that the abundance of free thiol groups in the reaction environment will prevent the oxidation of the cysteine thiol at the N-terminal of the other peptide. Without added thiol transesterification catalysts, disulfide formation resulting in dimerization of the Cys-peptide would be a dominant side reaction in aqueous, oxygenated buffer conditions. 

Metal complex Cone. (mol/1) [Catalyst] [Disulfide] PPS yield (wt %) Catalytic efficiency (%)b... 

The selective aerobic (O2) oxidative coupling of thiols in several imidazolium-based ionic liquids is studied in the absence of any base/metal catalysts. Disulfides are obtained from the corresponding thiols in good to excellent yields in l-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide ([hmim]Br). Furthermore, a H NMR-based mechanistic study of the S-S bond formation demonstrated the cooperative role of halide anion and imidazolium cation of [hmimJBr. ... 

The sweetening operation consists of converting the mercaptans to disulfides by air oxidation in the presence of a catalyst in a caustic environment. 

Sweetening. Another significant purification appHcation area for adsorption is sweetening. Hydrogen sulfide, mercaptans, organic sulfides and disulfides, and COS need to be removed to prevent corrosion and catalyst poisoning. They ate to be found in H2, natural gas, deethanizer overhead, and biogas. Often adsorption is attractive because it dries the stream as it sweetens. 

Direct splitting requires temperatures above 977°C. Yields of around 30% at 1127°C are possible by equiUbrium. The use of catalysts to promote the reaction can lower the temperature to around the 327—727°C range. A number of transition metal sulfides and disulfides are being studied as potential catalysts (185). Thermal decomposition of H2S at 1130°C over a Pt—Co catalyst with about 25% H2 recovery has been studied. 

Similarly, carbon disulfide and propylene oxide reactions are cataly2ed by magnesium oxide to yield episulftdes (54), and by derivatives of diethyUiac to yield low molecular weight copolymers (55). Use of tertiary amines as catalysts under pressure produces propylene trithiocarbonate (56). 

Fluorinated and Ghlorfluorinated Sulfonic Acids. The synthesis of chlorinated and fluorinated sulfonic acids has been extensively reviewed (91,92). The Hterature discusses the reaction of dialkyl sulfides and disulfides, sulfoxides and sulfones, alkanesulfonyl haHdes, alkanesulfonic acids and alkanethiols with oxygen, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, and oxygen—chloride—hydrogen fluoride mixtures over metal haHde catalysts, such as... 

Alternative means for removal of carbonyl sulfide for gas streams iavolve hydrogenation. For example, the Beavon process for removal of sulfur compounds remaining ia Claus unit tail gases iavolves hydrolysis and hydrogenation over cobalt molybdate catalyst resulting ia the conversion of carbonyl sulfide, carbon disulfide, and other sulfur compounds to hydrogen sulfide (25). 

Manufacture. Trichloromethanesulfenyl chloride is made commercially by chlorination of carbon disulfide with the careful exclusion of iron or other metals, which cataly2e the chlorinolysis of the C—S bond to produce carbon tetrachloride. Various catalysts, notably iodine and activated carbon, are effective. The product is purified by fractional distillation to a minimum purity of 95%. Continuous processes have been described wherein carbon disulfide chlorination takes place on a granular charcoal column (59,60). A series of patents describes means for yield improvement by chlorination in the presence of dihinctional carbonyl compounds, phosphonates, phosphonites, phosphites, phosphates, or lead acetate (61). 

The sulfur monochloride formed in this reaction can be treated with additional carbon disulfide in the presence of a catalyst to yield carbon tetrachloride and sulfur. Alternatively, the sulfur monochloride and carbon tetrachloride can be... 

When the Claus reaction is carried out in aqueous solution, the chemistry is complex and involves polythionic acid intermediates (105,211). A modification of the Claus process (by Shell) uses hydrogen or a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to reduce sulfur dioxide, carbonyl sulfide, carbon disulfide, and sulfur mixtures that occur in Claus process off-gases to hydrogen sulfide over a cobalt molybdate catalyst at ca 300°C (230). 

Manufacture of thiophene on the commercial scale involves reactions of the two component method type wherein a 4-carbon chain molecule reacts with a source of sulfur over a catalyst which also effects cyclization and aromatization. A range of suitable feedstocks has included butane, / -butanol, -butyraldehyde, crotonaldehyde, and furan the source of sulfur has included sulfur itself, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon disulfide (29—32). 

Carbon disulfide and chlorine react in the presence of iron catalysts to give carbon tetrachloride [56-23-5] and sulfur monochloride [10025-67-9] ... 

If bromine is used in equation 8, carbon tetrabromide [558-13-4] is formed. With a minor amount of iodine present, and in the absence of iron catalyst, carbon disulfide and chlorine react to form trichioromethanesulfenyl chloride (perchloromethyl mercaptan [594-42-3]), CCI3SCI, which can be reduced with staimous chloride or tin, and hydrochloric acid to form thiophosgene (thiocarbonyl chloride [463-71-8], CSCI2, an intermediate in the synthesis of many organic compounds (see Sulfurcompounds). 

Carbon disulfide reacts with concentrated ammonia to give ammonium thiocyanate [1762-95-4] and ammonium trithiocarbonate [13453-08-2] in a reaction promoted by alumina catalysts ... 

Carbon disulfide reacts with alkanols or diaLkyl ethers at 250—500°C over activated alumina catalyst to give diaLkyl sulfides. For example, methanol yields dimethyl sulfide [75-18-3]. 

Extensive research has been conducted on catalysts that promote the methane—sulfur reaction to carbon disulfide. Data are pubhshed for sihca gel (49), alurnina-based materials (50—59), magnesia (60,61), charcoal (62), various metal compounds (63,64), and metal salts, oxides, or sulfides (65—71). Eor a sihca gel catalyst the rate constant for temperatures of 500—700°C and various space velocities is (72)... 

Side reactions reduce the yield (99). Proposed processes for obtaining carbon disulfide from hydrogen sulfide and methane include a high temperature plasma (100) and low temperature operation with a catalyst and oxygen (101). 

Hydrogen sulfide and carbon react at 900°C to give a 70% yield of carbon disulfide (102,103). A process for reaction of coke and hydrogen sulfide or sulfur in an electric-resistance-heated fluidized bed has been demonstrated on a laboratory scale (104). Hydrogen sulfide also forms carbon disulfide in reactions with carbon monoxide at 600—1125°C (105) or carbon dioxide at 350—450°C in the presence of catalysts (106). 

Sulfur dioxide [7446-09-5] and methane react to form carbon disulfide in a yield of 84% at 850°C in the presence of certain catalysts (107). Sulfur dioxide and anthracite at 900—1000°C produce very high yields (108). 

Carbonyl sulfide can be either a starting or intermediate material (108—110), or it can be used as a fluidizing gas in a carbon fluid-bed process (111). Making carbon disulfide from boiler flue gas by catalyticaHy reducing SO2 with CO to COS, and then converting COS to CS2 over an alumina catalyst has been proposed (112). 

Carbon Disulfide Chlorination. The chlorination of carbon disulfide [75-15-0] is a very old method of producing carbon tetrachloride that is still practiced commercially in the United States. In this process CS2 reacts continuously with chlorine in an annular reactor at 105—130°C. Product CCl is separated by distillation to a CS2 content of 0—5 ppm. By-product S2CI2 is reduced in a reactor at 450°C with hydrogen without a catalyst to give sulfur of 99.985% purity (32). Other processes use ferric chloride as a catalyst (33,34). 

The principal mbbers, eg, natural, SBR, or polybutadiene, being unsaturated hydrocarbons, are subjected to sulfur vulcanization, and this process requires certain ingredients in the mbber compound, besides the sulfur, eg, accelerator, zinc oxide, and stearic acid. Accelerators are catalysts that accelerate the cross-linking reaction so that reaction time drops from many hours to perhaps 20—30 min at about 130°C. There are a large number of such accelerators, mainly organic compounds, but the most popular are of the thiol or disulfide type. Zinc oxide is required to activate the accelerator by forming zinc salts. Stearic acid, or another fatty acid, helps to solubilize the zinc compounds. 

The initial sulfur copolymer that is formed is often high conversion and gelled. Molecular weight is reduced to the required level by cleaving some of the polysulfide Linkages, usually with tetraethylthiuram disulfide. An alkaU metal or ammonium salt (30) of the dithiocarbamate, an alkaU metal salt of mercaptobensothiasole (31), and a secondary amine (32) have all been used as catalysts. The peptization reaction results in reactive chain ends. Polymer peptized with diphenyl tetrasulfide was reported to have improved viscosity stabiUty (33). 

Oxidation or "sweetening" is used on gasoline and distillate fractions. A common oxidation process is also a Merox process that uses a solid catalyst bed. Air and a minimum amount of alkaline caustic ("mini-alky" operation) is injected into the hydrocarbon stream. As the hydrocarbon passes through the Merox catalyst bed, sulfur mercaptans are oxidized to disulfide. In the sweetening Merox process, the caustic is not regenerated. The disulfide can remain with the gasoline product, since it does not possess the objectionable odor properties of mercaptans hence, the product has been sweetened. 

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