Reducing total sulfur in motor fuels has become a critical air pollution control goal worldwide. As countries mandate ever lower permissible levels of total sulfur in fuels, the environmental monitoring and fuel manufacturing industries have been forced to find more sensitive techniques for analysis. Gas chromatography coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (GC-ICP-MS) has the ...

Subsequent attempts, however, on their part to isolate the compound were unsuccessful. As the quantity of our selenium-sulfur compound was small, and the supply of the source material was exhausted and could not be replenished for several weeks, it was decided that in the meantime it would be worth while to repeat the work of Kiister and Irion with the hope of isolating the thio ether from wool...

Background: We intend to study the inhibitory effect of sulfur compound in Ramsar hot spring mineral on tumor-genesis ability of high natural background radiation. Objective: The radioprotective effect of sulfur compounds was previously shown on radiation-induced chromosomal aberration, micronuclei in mouse bone marrow cells and human peripheral lymphocyte. Ramsar is known for having the highe...

The reaction of sulfur ylides with carbonyl compounds to give epoxides is an important synthetic method. This Account charts the recent advances in rendering this process both asymmetric and catalytic. Two catalytic methods have been developed: the first involving the reaction of a sulfide with an alkyl halide in the presence of a base and aldehyde and the second involving the reaction of a sul...

A new type of chiral sulfur ylides has been synthesized and their reactivities against carbonyl compounds tested, showing a high degree of stereoselectivity in the formation of trans epoxy amides under very mild reaction conditions.

The complete genome sequence of Thiobacillus denitrificans ATCC 25259 is the first to become available for an obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-compound-oxidizing, beta-proteobacterium. Analysis of the 2,909,809-bp genome will facilitate our molecular and biochemical understanding of the unusual metabolic repertoire of this bacterium, including its ability to couple denitrification to su...

The reactivity of the nickel(I) dimer [(dippe)Ni(mu-H)](2) (1) with biphenyl-2-thiol was explored with the aim of clarifying the key step of sulfur extrusion during the hydrodesulfurization process using dibenzothiophene (DBT). These reactions were monitored by variable temperature NMR experiments which allowed the complete characterization and isolation of [(dippe)(2)Ni(2)(mu-H)(mu-S-2-bipheny...