Organosulfur compounds water

Acetic anhydride is a useful solvent in certain nitrations, acetylation of amines and organosulfur compounds for mbber processing, and in pesticides. Though acetic acid is unexceptional as a fungicide, small percentages of anhydride in acetic acid, or in cold water solutions are powerful fungicides and bactericides. There are no reports of this appHcation in commerce. It is possible that anhydride may replace formaldehyde for certain mycocidal apphcations. 

Organosulfur Compounds. These compounds, Hsted in Table 8, are used in a variety of appHcations, including cooling water, paint, and metalworking. Methylenebisthiocyanate hydroly2es rapidly at a pH above 8 to cyanate ion which complexes with ferric iron to poison the cytochrome systems (36). 

Y. Pico, A. J. H. Eouter, J. J. Vreuls and U. A. Th Brinkman, On-line tr-ace-level enrichment gas cliromatography of triazine herbicides, organophosphoms pesticides and organosulfur compounds from drinking and surface waters . Analyst 119 2025-2031 (1994). 

Organosulfur compounds present inAllium vegetables, which are either lipid or water soluble, are considered responsible for the beneficial effects of these herbs. Garlic derivatives generally have a thioallyl moiety, whereas onion extracts contain a thiopropyl group with somewhat different chemical properties [14]. 

Methanesulfonic acid, dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethyl sulfone are potential intermediates in the gas phase oxidation of dimethylsulfide in the atmosphere. We nave measured the rate of reaction of MSA with OH in aqueous solution using laser flash photolysis of dilute hydrogen peroxide solutions as a source of hydroxyl radicals, and using competition kinetics with thiocyanate as the reference solute. The rate of the reaction k (OH + SCN ) was remeasured to be 9.60 1.12 x 109 M 1 s 1, in reasonable agreement with recent literature determinations. The rates of reaction of the hydroxyl radical with the organosulfur compounds were found to decrease in the order DMSO (k = 5.4 0.3 x 109 M-i s 1) > MSA (k = 4.7 0.9 x 107 M l S 1) > DMS02 (k = 2.7 . 15 x 107 M 1 s ). The implications of the rate constant for the fate of MSA in atmospheric water are discussed. 

Dimethyl sulfoxide, (DMSO) and dimethyl sulfone, (DMSO2) have been reported in rain water samples (lg). As is the case for MSA, the vapour pressures of these compounds are such that they are much more likely to be partitioned into heterogenous (aqueous) phases than to remain in the gas phase. A second aim of this work was to observe possible reaction pathways of these organosulfur compounds, which are also potentially stable oxidation products of dimethyl sulfide. 

Other Organosulfur Compounds. There have been reports of the microbial metabolism of other OSC. However, few of these studies have given the identities of intermediates or organic endproducts of the OSC. For example, aerobic cultures have been reported to remove sulfur from phenyl sulfide (62). Thioxanthene and thianthrene were transformed to water-soluble products by a dibenzothiophene-oxidizing bacterium (48). In addition, thianthrene and thioxanthene served as sole carbon sources for the aerobic thermophile S. acidocaldarius (69) which released sulfate from these compounds. 

Water-soluble organic compounds in urban atmospheric particles can also contain organosulfur compounds. Methanesulfonic acid and hydroxymethanesulfonic acid have been found as the major organosulfur compounds in urban aerosols, most particularly in particles with the diameter range of 0.43-1.1 p.m. Monomethyl hydrogen sulfate has also been detected on urban particles from localities where no oil or coal power plant exist (Suzuki et al., 2001). 

The reforming process (as applied to a hydrocarbon or alcohol) yields a product stream that consists predominantly of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, water, unconverted feedstock, and trace by-products. This product stream mixture, called reformate, is unsuitable for direct use in low-temperature PEMFC and AFC, and some trace by-products (notably organosulfur compounds) will poison both high-temperature fuel cells and low-temperature fuel cells. A membrane for separating and purifying hydrogen from reformate must also be chemically compatible with the compounds in the reformate stream. 

During pyrolysis, H2S could be formed from the reaction of pyrite with hydrocarbons, hydrogen, or water, and from cracking of organosulfur compounds. Our objective was to determine the importance of these various reactions and to report the amounts of H2S evolved from oil-shale samples obtained from locations in Colorado. 

Przyjazny, A., Evaluation of the suitability of selected porous polymers for preconcentration of organosulfur compounds from water, J. Chromatogr., 346, 61-67, 1985. 

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