Diphenyl disulfide, 98%

General References:

1. Tsuyoshi Taniguchi; Tatsuya Fujii; Atsushi Idota; Hiroyuki Ishibashi. Reductive addition of the benzenethiyl radical to alkynes by amine-mediated single electron transfer reaction to diphenyl disulfide. Organic Letters. 2009, 11, (15)3298-3301
2. S.C.Mitchell; R.M.Nickson; E.R.Porter; W.F.Jackson; S.L.Preston; A.Q.Zhang. The fate of diphenyl sulphide, diphenyl sulphoxide and diphenyl sulphone in the rat. Drug Metabolism and Drug Interactions. 2000, 16, (3)191-206
3. Sulfenylation agent for enolates of ketones, esters or carboxylic acid dianions: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 95, 6840 (1973); 98, 4887 (1976); Chem. Rev., 78, 363 (1978). Oxidation to the sulfoxide and thermal elimination can be used for the conversion of ketones to enones via thermal sulfoxide elimination, less frequently used than the selenoxide route (cf preceding entry), due to the higher temperatures required.
4. Also sulfenylates organolithium reagents from, e.g. lithiated furans: J. Org. Chem., 46, 2473 (1981).
5. Alkyl halides under phase-transfer conditions give alkyl phenyl sulfides in good yields,: Synth. Commun., 12, 595 (1982), and alkenyl halides in the presence of CuI give alkenyl sulfides: Chem. Lett., 769 (1989).
6. For use as a catalyst in the photochemical cis-trans isomerization of olefins (used in the synthesis of the macrolide ricinelaidic acid lactone), see: Org. Synth. Coll., 7, 470 (1990).