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10 - ORGANOSULFUR CHEMISTRY

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
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what group does sulfur belong to?

Back (Answer)

chalcogen group (“oxygen family”) expected that organosulfur compounds have similarities to carbon oxygen compounds, but that is true to some extent

#2
Front (Question)

what are the two sulfur amino acids?

Back (Answer)

methionine and cysteine

#3
Front (Question)

what is prontosil?

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#4
Front (Question)

what is alliin and what does it cause?

Back (Answer)

derived from cysteine

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#5
Front (Question)

what is skunk spray made of?

Back (Answer)

mainly made of low molecular weight thiols which are detectable at concentrations of about 2 parts per million (E)-2-butene-1-thiol 3-methyl-1-butanethiol (E)-2-butene-1-thioacetate

#6
Front (Question)

how can skunk smell be removed? (example with (E)-2-butene-1-thiol

Back (Answer)

turn the compounds into sulfonic acids you need H2O2, baking soda, dishwashing detergent

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#7
Front (Question)

what is mercaptan structure and what it does

Back (Answer)

grapefruit mercaptan: scent of grapefruit used in perfume and flavor industry this aroma is only a property of the R stereoisomer

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#8
Front (Question)

what are some benefits of bad smelling sulfides?

Back (Answer)

used to scent natural gas so that gas leaks are easily detectable

#9
Front (Question)

what does phosphorus exist as?

Back (Answer)

exists as P4

#10
Front (Question)

what does sulfur exist as?

Back (Answer)

exists as S8 does not have the tendency as N and O to make double bonds

#11
Front (Question)

why does oxygen exist as a double bond but sulfur cannot do that?

Back (Answer)

Nitrogen and Oxygen use 2p orbitals to form pi bonds P and S use 3p orbitals to form pi bonds the orbitals are larger which means that there is a larger interatomic distance, and therefore a weaker 3p-3p overlap that is why P4 and S8 exist as single bonds

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#12
Front (Question)

why are C=S bonds relatively weaker and what does this explain?

Back (Answer)

weak overlap because of the size differences between 2p and 3p pi orbitals this explains why ene-thiols are the favored form over thiones because ene-thiols have a C=C double bond instead of a C=S bond

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#13
Front (Question)

how many valence electrons does sulfur have?

Back (Answer)

6 valence electrons, uses s, p and d orbitals in bonding hypervalent molecule, can have more than 8 electrons in its shell

#14
Front (Question)

draw the normal electron configuration vs hybridized electron configuration of sulfur

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#15
Front (Question)

what can SF6 gas be used for?

Back (Answer)

high density, was put into shoes to give it more bound but it is a greenhouse gas so it hasnt been used anymore if you inhale SF6 it gives you a deep voice

#16
Front (Question)

how does SF4 arrange?

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#17
Front (Question)

what about phosphorus orbitals, PF5 and PF6-?

Back (Answer)

phosphorus also uses s, p and d orbitals in bonding

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#18
Front (Question)

how can there be some p-d pi bonding and what is the evidence for that?

Back (Answer)

bond length is shorter than expected for the P-O or S-O single bond the structure with a negative oxygen has a tetrahedral arrangement like an sp3 carbon

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#19
Front (Question)

what do the orbitals look like when you make a S-O sigma bond or S=O pi bond?

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#20
Front (Question)

why does S use the d orbital instead of the p orbital for pi bonding?

Back (Answer)

all 4 of sulfur’s sp3 orbitals are already occupied in bonding with two carbons, oxygen, and accommodating the electron pair

#21
Front (Question)

structure of a thiol

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#22
Front (Question)

structure of a sulfide

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#23
Front (Question)

structure of a disulfide

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#24
Front (Question)

what are some examples of naturally occuring thiols?

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