Sulphur fluorides research

One of the first steps by the CWS just before World War II was to expand research on the classes of substances that might be suitable for toxic agents. In this program the National Defense Research Committee did much work. Soon after the committee came into existence in 1940, the CWS submitted to it six projects, four of which were concerned wholly or partially with toxic agents. To screen compounds synthesized by hundreds of chemists in universities and industry, the NDRC established in April 1941 a toxicity laboratory at the University of Chicago. In its four years of existence this laboratory screened about seventeen hundred compounds. The most promising of these, including sulphur fluorides,... 

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