2,2'-Dithiodipyridine

white to yellowish crystalline powder

2,2'-Dipyridyl disulfide is a useful reagent for determination of sulfhydryl groups, preparation of amino acid active esters and the thio esters of phosphoric acid. It acts as a peptide coupling reagent and as an oxidizing agent. It is also used for the activation of glycosides.

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

2,2'-Dithiodipyridine was used in the synthesis of adenosine-5′-phosphoimidazolide. It was employed with PPh₃ as a condensing agent in the amidation of carboxylic acid enantiomers for HPLC separation.

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 is a nucleocapsid zinc finger targeting compound and can abrogate the infectivity of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 virions. It is a thiol reagent.

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