Solubility of elemental sulfur (orthorhombic S8) at 25°C in organic solvents (data in mass-%):

Ethanol = 0.066

Acetone =0.079

Diethyl ether =0.181

Dimethyl formamide = 0.191

n-Hexane =0.40

Carbon tetrachloride = 0.832

Nitrobenzene =0.856

Chloroform =1.164

Cyclohexane =1.185

Aniline =1.259

Xylene = 2.051

Toluene = 2.070

Benzene = 2.093

Chlorobenzene = 2.370

Carbondisulfide =34.8

Gmelin Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie, Schwefel, Teil A, Lieferung 3, VCH, Weinheim, 1953. M. Bamberg, Dissertation, Univ. Saarbrücken, 1959. Any water content will reduce the solubility of S8 while increasing temperature increases the solubility. At higher temperatures aniline is expected to react with S8, all other solvents are indifferent.

Solubility of elemental sulfur (orthorhombic S8) at 25°C in organic solvents (data in mass-%):

Ethanol = 0.066

Acetone =0.079

Diethyl ether =0.181

Dimethyl formamide = 0.191

n-Hexane =0.40

Carbon tetrachloride = 0.832

Nitrobenzene =0.856

Chloroform =1.164

Cyclohexane =1.185

Aniline =1.259

Xylene = 2.051

Toluene = 2.070

Benzene = 2.093

Chlorobenzene = 2.370

Carbondisulfide =34.8

Gmelin Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie, Schwefel, Teil A, Lieferung 3, VCH, Weinheim, 1953. M. Bamberg, Dissertation, Univ. Saarbrücken, 1959. Any water content will reduce the solubility of S8 while increasing temperature increases the solubility. At higher temperatures aniline is expected to react with S8, all other solvents are indifferent.

Thank you very much Ahmad

please reade the publication:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378381211004201

Thank you very much Prof. Shatzmiller.

Of course the paper Prof. Shatzmiller referred to it is one of the best reference for your question. Just Shortly I could say, sulfur is mainly soluble in aromatic components. so any of those, like Toluene and benzene etc could be a good option.

In addition, depends on what you are looking on and T and P of your experiments, you can have it in super critical CO2 as well:

http://bit.ly/1QRJgTf

Thank you.

I need the sulfur to be soluble at 60C. The best solvent for now is quinoline, but it smells...

Dichlorobenzene is also good and has no smell (it dissolves about 10 wt% S at 60C).

I would like to find even better solvent for sulfur.

Try this paper please: 

Solubility of elemental sulfur in pure organic solvents and organic solvent–ionic liquid mixtures from 293.15 to 353.15 K

Good luck

Thank you Khaldoon 

best soluble in carbon disulphide

I was wondering what is the best organic solvent that can dissolve sulphur and be immiscible in water?

As I remember it was quite soluble in diphenylether

I wonder if it has solubility in any polar solvents to be used in HPLC. Pl. suggest

For what use?

I found that you can dissolve it in sodium methoxide by mixing sodium in methanol. However, this way it is not elemental sulfur anymore.

Hi Tomer Zidki,

This is related to estimation of sulfur at low level in reaction mass samples.

We are sending our samples for detection using XRF

Hi All,

Does anybody know, if sulfur is soluble in Dichloromethane?

Among the solvents for solubilization of elemental S which will be safe for crop plants when sprayed as foliar fertilizer

Elemental S is moderately soluble in Acetone, Toluene, Benzene, Chloroform.....And solubility increases with temperature.

an addtional question: Due amines increase teh solubility of Sulfur? Due they react with sulfur?

elemental sulfur dissolves in Carbondisulfide

what about amines?

¿¿Do they promote sulfur or sulfides dissolution??

As already mentioned, sulfur dissolves well in CS2.

Thanks, but I asked about amine dissolution of sulfur or sulfides. We observed amine attack of MnS and suppose that S passivation of the sulfitde is avoide by S dissolution .

yes, sulfur dissolve in carbon disulfide, if some body want to dissolve in other solvents like water then let me know, i have experience in this field.