The thermal heterolytic scission of two symmetrical disulphides to give the parent thiol and a mesoionic compound containing two fewer hydrogen atoms is shown to follow first-order kinetics in a variety of solvents; there is a linear correlation between log k and the polarity parameters Y and Z.
A. M. Kiwan and H. M. N. H. Irving, J. Chem. Soc. D, 1970, 928 DOI: 10.1039/C29700000928
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