“…A detailed analysis of extensive pressure measurements of saturated sulfur vapor showed S7 to be one of the major components of this complex mixture with S7 concentrations ranging from 12 mol-% at 200 °C to 26% at 400 °C [6,11]. Later it was discovered by IR and Raman spectroscopy that liquid sulfur after equilibration, besides Ss, contains the cyclic molecules Sö, S7, and S12 [12] as well as larger rings [13], and pure S7 could be obtained from the quenched melt by CS2 and toluene extraction [14], Recent investigations have further shown that S7 is one of those ubiquitous molecules produced in many reactions but discovered only recently by means of molecular spectroscopy. Such reactions are, for example, the irradiation of Se, Ss, and S10 in CS2, CH2Cl2 or toluene solutions [15], the acid decomposition of aqueous sodium thiosulfate [16], and the thermal decomposition of sulfur diiodide at 25 °C [17].…”