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Carbon disulfide is a colorless volatile liquid with the formula CS2, useful as a non-polar solvent.

Properties

Chemical

Chlorination of CS2 yields carbon tetrachloride and sulfur dichloride:

CS2 + 3 Cl2 → CCl4 + S2Cl2

Physical

Carbon disulfide is a colorless, with an chloroform like smell when pure. Impure CS2 has a yellowish color and has a putrid smell. It is insoluble in water, but soluble in many organic solvents, such as benzene, ethanol, diethyl ether, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform. It's poorly soluble in formic acid. CS2 boils at 46.24 °C and freezes at −111.61 °C. It has a low autoignition temperature for a solvent, of only 102 °C.

Availability

Carbon disulfide is sold by chemical suppliers, however there appears to be no sellers on Ebay or Amazon.

Preparation

There are many ways to synthesize CS2, most if not all tend to produce plenty of side products, which means that the product will be impure and have a bad smell. Some processes have low yield.

The first method, involves the reaction of sulfur vapors with carbon (or coke, anthracite, or any other coal) at 900°C. The resulting vapors are condensed and sulfur disulfide is purified. BromicAcid managed to synthesize only a few ml using this method. A few years later, garagechemist in collaboration with Len1, tried to improve the said method, using a tube furnace. It yielded around 44 g of CS2. myst32YT mas also made a small amount of carbon disulfide.[1]

Another method, that works at lower temperatures (600 °C), utilizes methane as the carbon source in the presence of silica gel or alumina catalysts:

2 CH4 + S8 → 2 CS2 + 4 H2S[2]

Another method involves the reaction of carbon tetrachloride with sulfur, between 120-220 °C, in the presence of a catalyst such as copper chloride, iron chloride, aluminium chloride.[3]

The thermal decomposition of ammonium thiocyanate yields carbon disulfide, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, leaving a residue of guanidinium thiocyanate. This reaction produces a fairly pure compound. Other thiocyanates can also be used.

Reacting sulfur or sulfur dioxide vapors with carbon dioxide at 800 °C in the presence of alumina catalyst will also yield carbon disulfide. Carbonyl sulfide may also form as a side product.[4][5]

A mixture of acetylene and sulfur vapor at temperatures between 325-650 °C will also yield carbon disulfide. Pyrite can also be used instead of sulfur.[6]

A different way involves the reaction of carbon monoxide with sulfur, in the presence of a catalyst such as iron, iron(III) sulfide, at temperatures between 400 - 500 °C.[7] The same reaction can also be carried out at 500 °C in the presence of silica gel.[8]

The reaction of calcium carbide with sulfur at at 500 °C.[9] The same reaction can also occur at temperatures between 250 - 360 °C, with a different yield.[10]

Another method described in literature is the reaction of lead(II) sulfide with carbon monoxide, in a furnace, at high temperature.[11]

Carbon disulfide can also be obtained in traces by reacting benzene with sulfur dioxide, at 500°C. It also produces many byproducts,such as dithiobenzene, carbon dioxide, carbonyl sulfide, some free oxygen, and some unknown polymeric residue.[12] The reaction can be improved by using a vanadium pentoxide/alumina catalyst, the reaction taking place at 1000-1200 °C.[13]

Pyrolysis or scrap types also gives carbon disulfide, although separating it from the mixture is not very practical.[14]

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Handling

Safety

Carbon disulfide has moderate toxicity. It is an irritant to the eyes and skin. CS2 is however extremely volatile and flammable.[15]

Storage

Carbon disulfide should be stored in closed bottles away from any heat source. Due to it's high volatility its best kept in a cold place. The bottle should be open periodically to prevent a pressure build-up.

Disposal

Carbon disulfide can be burned, although this will produce sulfur dioxide gas.

References

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkBFlPagRgA
  2. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie50642a007
  3. Fomin, W. A., Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii, 1936, Vol. 6, p. 852 - 854
  4. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ange.19310442003/abstract
  5. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ange.19320455202/abstract
  6. Bulletin de la Societe Chimique de France, 1908, Vol. <4> 3, p. 151
  7. DE398322 C
  8. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie50584a043
  9. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ange.19280412607/abstract
  10. Moissan, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences (1894), Vol. 118, p. 502
  11. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/1863/js/js8631600042#!divAbstract
  12. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja01510a062
  13. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/1957/tf/tf9575300972#!divAbstract
  14. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es990883y
  15. http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9927125

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