R-5.5.6 Hydropolysulfides and polysulfides

Bring the power of IUPAC naming to your desktop!

ACD/Name (Chemist Version) offers a standardized set of features for quick and simple generation of IUPAC names, and structures from names. It is a streamlined version of our popular ACD/Name software.

View a full description and pricing on our web store.

Specific Classes of Compounds

R-5.5.6 Hydropolysulfides and polysulfides

Compounds with the general structures

and

are called generically "hydropolysulfides" and "polysulfides", respectively. They are named substitutively as derivatives of polysulfanes

, if the sulfur chain is linear (see R-2.2.2), and by functional class nomenclature by citing the prefix name of the group R, or the names of the groups R and

, in alphabetical order, followed by the class name "hydropolysulfide" or "polysulfide" respectively, each as a separate word. Selenium and tellurium analogues are named in the same way using the parent hydride names "polyselane" or "polytellane" and the class names "hydropolyselenide" or "hydropolytelluride" and "polyselenide" or "polytelluride", respectively.

Examples to R-5.5.6

Next:: R-5.5.7 Sulfoxides, sulfones, and their analogues

This HTML reproduction is as close as possible to the published version [see IUPAC, Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry. A Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds (Recommendations 1993), 1993, Blackwell Scientific publications, Copyright 1993 IUPAC]. If you need to cite these rules please quote this reference as their source.

Published with permission of the IUPAC by Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., www.acdlabs.com, +1(416)368-3435 tel, +1(416)368-5596 fax. For comments or suggestions please contact [email protected]