To use all functions of this page, please activate cookies in your browser.
my.chemeurope.com
With an accout for my.chemeurope.com you can always see everything at a glance – and you can configure your own website and individual newsletter.
- My watch list
- My saved searches
- My saved topics
- My newsletter
Thiirane
Thiirane, more commonly known as ethylene sulfide, is the cyclic chemical compound with the formula C2H4S. It is the smallest sulfur-containing heterocycle. Like many organosulfur compounds, this species has a stench. Thiirane is also used to describe any derivative of the parent ethylene sulfide. Additional recommended knowledgePreparationIt is prepared by the reaction of ethylenecarbonate and KSCN.[1] For this purpose the KSCN is first melted under vacuum to remove water.
ReactionsEthylenesulfide adds to amines to afford 2-mercaptoethylamines,[2] which are good chelating ligands.
References
Categories: Thioethers | Sulfur heterocycles |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Thiirane". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia. |