Recent advances in sulfuration chemistry enabled by bunte salts

Bunte salts are easy-to-handle crystalline solids, even when incorporating highly lipophilic organic moieties, and generally have little-to-no odor. Due to the unique properties of Bunte salts, they have been frequently utilized in the synthesis of sulfides, sulfur-containing heterocycles, thiophosphates, other compound classes, and metal nanoparticles. This short review focuses on recent applications of Bunte salts in the synthesis of sulfur-containing compounds with particular emphasis on the synthesis of sulfides.