Dimethyl Sulfide - Other Uses

Other Uses

Dimethyl sulfide finds a niche use as a displaceable ligand in chloro(dimethyl sulfide)gold(I) and other coordination compounds.Dimethyl sulfide is also used in the ozonolysis of alkenes getting itself oxidized to DMSO.

alkene + ozone + DMS → aldehyde(1) + aldehyde(2) + DMSO

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