Sulfur
S, 32.067 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.
Identifiers
- Molecular formula
- S
- Molecular weight
- 32.067 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 31.972071 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- sulfane
- [S]
- InChI=1S/S
- NINIDFKCEFEMDL-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Measured properties
Values somebody obtained from a sample and published. Where two sources report the same property they are both shown, in the units each used — a disagreement between them is information, and averaging it away would be inventing a number neither one gave.
- Boiling Point
- 444.61 °C
- 445 °C
- Melting Point
- 95.3 °C /(Sulfur rhombic transforms to monoclinic)/; 115.21 °C /Sulfur (monoclinic)/
- Ignites in air above 261 °C, in oxygen below 260 °C, burning to the dioxide; combines readily with hydrogen; combines in the cold with fluorine, chlorine, and bromine; combines with carbon at high tem
- Density
- 2.07 g/cu cm (Sulfur (rhombic)/; 2.00 (Sulfur (monoclinic)/
- Amber-colored crystals. The stable at ordinary temperature, density: 2.06; when heated to 94.5 °C becomes opaque owing to formation of monoclinic sulfur /alpha-Sulfur/
- Solubility
- For more Solubility (Complete) data for Sulfur, Elemental (13 total), please visit the HSDB record page.
- For more Solubility (Complete) data for Sulfur, Elemental (13 total), please visit the HSDB record page.
- Vapor Pressure
- 3.95X10-6 mm Hg at 30.4 °C
- Flash Point
- 405 °F (207 °C) (Closed cup)
- 160 °C c.c.
- Viscosity
- Dynamic viscosity of liquid (Pa.s): 0.17 at 120 °C; 0.008 at 140 °C; 0.0064 at 158 °C; 5.952 at 160 °C; 86.304 at 180 °C; 93.0 at 187.8 °C; 78.864 at 200 °C; 3.72 at 300 °C
- Refractive Index
- Index of refraction: 1.947 /alpha/; 2.038 /beta/
Calculated properties
Derived from the structure rather than from a sample. These are reproducible and they are not measurements: a calculated partition coefficient and a measured one can differ by a long way, and where both exist they are listed apart on purpose.
- Molecular weight
- 32.07 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 31.97207117 Da
- XLogP3
- 0.5
- Polar surface area
- 1 Ų
- Complexity
- 0
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- logP
- 0.6482
- Topological polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Rotatable bonds
- 0
- Molar refractivity
- 7.591 cm³/mol
- Fraction sp³ carbons
- 0
- QED drug-likeness
- 0.3675
What it is made of
Elements
Structure
- Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
- 1
- Total atoms, hydrogen included
- 1
- Rings
- 0
- Aromatic rings
- 0
- Stereocentres
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
The molecule in three dimensions
The drawing above is a diagram of what is bonded to what. A molecule is not flat, and the model here is one low-energy shape generated from the connectivity — useful for seeing which groups can reach each other, and not a measured structure. A real sample is a population of conformations, interconverting.
Reactions it appears in
Other names for it
The systematic name on this record is sulfane.
The sources also call it Anacardium, Bioelements, Armarita, Celesty, Naturasil, Prosacea, Sulfaderm, DermaWash, Motto, Acne Treatment, alpha-Sulfur, Spot Correction.
Structurally related
Seen alongside it in reaction records
Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as Sulfur. This says nothing about structure: most of them are the bases, solvents, ligands and catalysts the chemistry needed, and they are here because somebody put them in the same flask.
Where these values came from
reference compound database5362487
chemistry engine
What this page does not claim
The identifiers are what the source record holds, copied rather than recomputed. Measured values are reported as their source gave them, units and all; calculated values are marked as calculated and are not measurements. Where a field is absent the page says so, because a blank cell reads as a zero and a guessed value reads as a fact.
Nothing here is a hazard assessment, a purity statement or advice about handling a sample. A flash point quoted from a safety database is a number somebody published, not a judgement by us about whether this molecule is safe for what you intend.