2. Action of Heat on some Salts of Trimethylsulphine

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Main Authors: Brown, Crum, Blaikie, J. Adrian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1880
• Subjects: General Engineering; Carbonic acid
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0370164600043728; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0370164600043728

I.The carbonate of trimethylsulphine is obtained by the action of carbonate of silver on the iodide of trimethylsulphine. The solution of the salt may be evaporated to a syrup in the waterbath. On standing for some weeks over sulphuric acid in vacuo it crystallises out in exceedingly hygroscopic prismatic crystals, containing water of crystallisation, and having a strong alkaline reaction. Heated in the air to 100° the salt gives off water, sulphide of methyl, and carbonic acid. Heated in a sealed tube to 100° C. for about eight hours it was almost entirely decomposed, gave off a gas consisting entirely of carbonic acid, and yielded two layers of liquid—the upper, sulphide of methyl; the lower, water and methylic alcohol.