Elementary Reactions / Flames / RadicalsLarger hydrocarbon radicals in flames, which are difficult to detect by optical methods, can be analyzed quantitatively by radical scavenging with dimethyl disulfide in the condensed phase. -Gas samples taken from a sooting ethyne/oxygen flame by a nozzle beam were frozen at liquid-Ny-tcmpcraturc on the inner surface of a hollow sphere simultaneously with the radical scavenger dimethyl disulfide. The latter was admitted in large excess as a gas and was condensed uniformly on the inner wall of the sphere. The mixture of condensable stable flame products and scavenging products in the excess CH JSSCH 3 was separated and identified by GC/MS. -Larger hydrocarbons (C,HI' x~6) condensed quantitatively. H, CH 3 , C 4H 3 and the phenyl radical were scavenged as mono(methylthio) compounds; C 2 and the carbenes CH 2 , C 3H 2 , C;H 2 yielded bis(methylthio) compounds; other bis(methylthio) compounds observed were C 2nH 2(SCH 3 h with n = 1, 2, 3 and 4. CH, C 3H and C 2H3 were identified by the respective tris(methylthio) compounds. Any consecutive reactions of radicals with stable flame products and their recombinations in the cold trap were suppressed by their scavenging reaction.