Process for preparing organic disulfides

摘要

A process is described for preparing organic disulfides, useful as accelerators in vulcanization and as anti-oxidants for synthetic rubber latexes, which comprises reacting an organic sulfonyl halide with a mercaptan in a ratio of at least about 5 moles of mercaptan per mole of sulfonyl halide, wherein by-product sulfinic acid is not formed in the final product.