On the topic of home Sulfur Chemistry-Viewpoints wanted

If this post is more fitting for legal and societal issues, I apologize.

For the past month, I've been fairly interested into Sulfur chemistry, particularly sulfur's use in the organic chemistry field. I'm aware of sulfur's bad reputation for having the potential to create extremely irritating and fairly poisonous compounds. The main compounds use I've been wanting to explore though are the Sulfur halides, starting off with the chlorides. The main use I want to use Sulfur chlorides for is their usefulness in creating halide groups which have a diverse range of uses.

I'd like to clear up that I'm not interested in creating stink bombs and such. However, exploring the forum, I found a thread concerning a user, Cou, and his wanting to do Sulfur chemistry. Other users reacted fairly negatively to his interests, particularly over the fact that home organic chemistry is the one of the home chemistry fields that would annoy or put people in danger the most.

I'm working on a good system to produce Sulfur chlorides currently and even pre-prepared a storage system for it outside of the house (a styrofoam container with sodium thiosulfate and sodium carbonate mixed with kitty litter; bottles will rest in the mixture). I'm able to create neutralization traps for Sulfur chlorides.

The most severe problem of this is that I live in a suburban neighborhood. I have not created a system to neutralize thiols and organic sulfides (though I'd expect I would use conc. sodium hydroxide). I don't have a confident system for storing thiols and sulfides. Again, the reason I want to try to experiment with organosulfur compounds is their reactively potential in reactions.

I feel that I can confidently use Sulfur chlorides in well contained experiments but insecure about organosulfur compounds. I don't want to bash the name of amateur chemistry or land myself in trouble by accidentally smelling up the nearby area like a skunk. I'd like other people's viewpoints. Is there a viable system for production and storage of organosulfur compounds in a home setting? Should I just desert the Sulfur organic chemistry just for safety's sake? Is there a way to make and use organosulfur compounds institute?

Thank you for any responses.

Edit: Just discovered from Aga that Sulfur chlorides ruin glassware and should have immediate use or be placed in short term shortage. Maybe I'll transform my storage container into a bromine storage container.

Edit #2: Just found out that Sulfur chlorides are schedule 3 chemicals. There'll definitely be no storage of it I guess . Careful notebook planning and immediately using it only.



[Edited on 2-14-2017 by A Halogenated Substance]

[Edited on 2-15-2017 by A Halogenated Substance]

Sulfur compounds don't "ruin your glassware" unless you simply don't have access to xylenes or toluene to clean up elemental sulfur with.

As for the Schedule 3 of the CWC listing, which is intended as a world peacekeeping tool more so than a safety measure: "Plants which manufacture of more than 30 tonnes per year must be declared and can be inspected as per Part VIII of the "Verification Annex", and there are restrictions on export to countries which are not CWC signatories"

Well, looks like you can't synthesize your 30th ton until 2018

[Edited on 2-15-2017 by Amos]

Quote: Originally posted by Amos

Sulfur compounds don't "ruin your glassware" unless you simply don't have access to xylenes or toluene to clean up elemental sulfur with. As for the Schedule 3 of the CWC listing, which is intended as a world peacekeeping tool more so than a safety measure: "Plants which manufacture of more than 30 tonnes per year must be declared and can be inspected as per Part VIII of the "Verification Annex", and there are restrictions on export to countries which are not CWC signatories" Well, looks like you can't synthesize your 30th ton until 2018 [Edited on 2-15-2017 by Amos]

Oh darn, the factory in my backyard will just have to wait til then.

I've been, however, looking into heterocyclic compound synthesis and haloalkanes instead.
I extremely appreciate the advice given. I'll likely just do organo-sulfur chemistry later if it appeals to me once again, if I've put together good handling and disposal techniques for the compounds.