Resins for removal of organo-sulfur compounds from organic or aqueous media

A process of removing organo-sulfur impurities from a solution comprising, contacting said solution with a polymer which is a styrene/divinylbenzene copolymer containing 0.1 to 35 parts by weight of divinylbenzene per hundred parts by weight of the polymer, said polymer being characterized by containing at least one of the following pendant groups:

• ##STR10## wherein X is selected from the group consisting of chlorine and bromine, M is selected from the group consisting of sodium and potassium and M' is selected from the group consisting of calcium and magnesium wherein said polymer contains at least one mole of said pendant groups for every mole of said organo-sulfur impurities that are to be removed, and said organo-sulfur impurities being characterized by the structural formulae, RS.sub.n' R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 SH, wherein R, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are hydrocarbon radicals such as alkyl radicals having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, monounsaturated alkyl radicals having 3 to 20 carbon atoms diunsaturated alkyl radicals having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, aryl radicals having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, aralkyl radicals having 7 to 20 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl radicals having 5 to 12 carbon atoms and n' equals 1 to 2, and those having the structure ##STR11## wherein R.sup.3 is an alkylene radical of 3 to 6 carbon atoms, optionally branched with one or two alkyl groups of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and wherein R, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 may optionally contain chloro, bromo, fluoro, hydroxy, alkoxy, aryloxy, cyano, nitro, carboalkoxy, carboaryloxy, alkylsulfonyl and arylsulfonyl substituents located one or more carbon atoms from the carbon attached to sulfur.