A traceless, one-pot preparation of unsymmetric disulfides from symmetric disulfides through a repeated process involving sulfenic acid and thiosulfinate intermediates

A variable group of unsymmetric disulfides was prepared under mild reaction conditions and in high yields through the reaction of symmetric disulfides with sulfuryl chloride followed by treatment with thiols in the presence of water.

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