Disulfide Bond

In chemistry, a disulfide bond (Br.E. disulphide bond) is a covalent bond, usually derived by the coupling of two thiol groups. The linkage is also called an SS-bond or disulfide bridge. The overall connectivity is therefore R-S-S-R. The terminology is widely used in biochemistry. In formal terms, the connection is a persulfide, in analogy to its congener, peroxide (R-O-O-R), but this terminology is obscure and is no longer used (except in reference to R-S-S-H or H-S-S-H compounds).

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