Abstract Focusing on the study of bond breaking and formation processes, this paper attempts to use the arrow-pushing technique commonly employed in organic reaction mechanism illustration to analyze reaction mechanisms of sulfur compounds including reactions of the S-H bonds such as neutralization of hydrogen sulfide, hydrolysis of sodium sulfide, and reaction of hydrogen sulfide and atomic oxygen species, reactions of S-halogen bonds such as hydrolysis of sulfur tetrafluoride, reactions between sulfur tetrafluoride and chlorine monofluoride, and also the reaction between S(IV) species and diatomic halogen molecules, reactions of the S-O bonds such as reactions of sulfur dioxide and water or sulfur trioxide, the preparation of thionyl chloride, as well as reactions of the S-S bonds such as preparation of sulfur halides, reactions of hydrogen sulfide and chlorosulfuric acid, iodine and sodium thiosulfate.
XU Shou-Bing. Writing Inorganic Reaction Mechanism of Sulfur and Its Compounds Using Arrow Pushing Method[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, 2023, 44(21): 105-112.