Reactions of hexamethyldisilathiane (HMDST) with carbonyl compounds under the catalytic activity of CoCl 2 ·6H 2 O or trimethylsilyltriflate lead to a simple and general access to thioaldehydes and thioketones, which could be isolated as their cycloadducts with dienes. The use of CF 3 SO 3 SiMe 3 in reactions with cyclohexadiene allows a stereopredetermined access to either the endo-or the exo-isomer. Furthermore, on using b-silyl-substituted acetylenic ketones, a smooth access to acetylenic thioketones can be achieved. In reactions with aromatic and heteroaromatic o-azido aldehydes, the reactivity of HMDST may be finely tuned toward the synthesis of o-azido thioaldehydes, fused isothiazole ring systems, aromatic and heteroaromatic o-amino aldehydes, and o-amino thioaldehydes.HMDST proved also very efficient in thionating more intriguing substrates such as acylsilanes. Thus, thioacylsilanes, thioformylsilanes, unsaturated thioacylsilanes and -stannanes can be obtained in good yields. Ethylenic thioacylsilanes showed an interesting behavior leading to a general synthesis of functionalized dithiins. Finally, HMDST led also to the synthesis of bis(thioacylsilanes), which led to the formation of new silylated thiaheterocyclic systems.