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Science 29 May 1964:
Vol. 144. no. 3622, pp. 1137 - 1138
DOI: 10.1126/science.144.3622.1137
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Reduction of Dimethylsulfoxide to Dimethylsulfide in the Cat

Victor Distefano 1 and Harold H. Borgstedt 1

1 Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

A peculiar sweetish odor was noted in the exhaled breath of cats treated with dimethylsulfoxide. By means of gas chromatographic and mass spectrographic techniques, the responsible compound was identified as dimethylsilfid.


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