Compounds having an unbranched chain of sulfur atoms
(
S2 or higher) terminating in
H:
HSnH.
Some chemists exclude disulfane,
HS2H, from the class polysulfanes.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on
structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1360