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white to yellowish crystalline powder

2,2'-Dipyridyldisulfide, sometimes known as DPS, is used for preparing thiols and activating or protecting carboxylic acid with triphenylphosphine.

ChEBI: Aldrithiol is a member of the class of pyridines that is pyridine which is substituted by a pyridin-2-yldisulfanediyl group at position 2. It is a reagent used in molecular biology as an oxidizing agent. Also used in peptide synthesis and for detecting thiols. It has a role as an oxidising agent. It is an organic disulfide and a member of pyridines.

2,2′-Dithiodipyridine mediates inter-unit disulfide cross-linking. It interacts with carbon nucleophiles to yield thiopyridyl derivatives.

Recrystallise the disulfide H2O from *C6H6/pet ether (6:7), ligroin or *C6H6. The picrate has m 119o (from EtOH). [Walter et al. Justus Liebigs Ann Chem 695 7785 1966, Marckwald et al. Chem Ber 33 1556 1900, Brocklehurst & Little Biochem J 133 67,78 1973, Beilstein 21 III/IV 48.] It has been used as a 1mM solution in EtOH for the spectrophotometric estimation of thiols. Essentially the thiol displaces half the disulfide molecule liberating the 2-mercaptopyridine anion, thereby shifting the from 340nm (of the disulfide) to 268nm (of the anion) at pH 9, or 278nm in H2O. (Compare