“…Similarly, high yield formation of bis(thiophosphoryl)disulfides in the oxidation of phosphorodithioic acids and their salts with nitric acid, nitrogen oxides [14][15][16][17], hydrogen peroxides [6,7], and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) [18] was also observed. On the other hand, the oxidative desulfurization of phosphino-, phosphono-, and phosphorothioic acid esters in their reactions with DMSO [19,20] as well as potassium dialkyl phosphorothioate in the reaction with peroxymonosulfate (Oxone R ) [21], were reported. Recently, we described [22] the quantitative formation of bis(dialkoxyphosphinyl) disulfide as a major product of the oxidation reaction of ammonium dialkyl phosphorothioate by iodoxybenzene.…”