Depending on the reactant ratio, dithiooxamide (ethanedithioamide) reacted as N-nucleophile or N,N′-binucleophile with highly electrophilic aldimines, N-(2,2,2-trichloroethylidene)-and N-(2,2-dichloro-2-phenylethylidene)arenesulfonamides, to give the corresponding mono-or bis-adducts, N-[2-polychloro-1-(arylsulfonylamino)ethyl]ethanedithioamides or N,N′-bis[2-polychloro-1-(arylsulfonylamino)ethyl]ethanedithioamides, in good yield. I, III, V, X = Cl; II, IV, VI, X = Ph; Ar = Ph (a), 4-MeC 6 H 4 (b), 4-ClC 6 H 4 (c).Reactions of highly electrophilic N-sulfonyl polychloroaldehyde imines with oxygen-, nitrogen-, sulfur-, and carbon-centered nucleophiles underlie preparatively efficient approaches to a broad series of N-polyhaloalkyl sulfonamides. The latter possess various functional groups, including reactive NH group and polyhalomethyl fragments, and are used in the synthesis of difficultly accessible acyclic and heterocyclic sulfonamides [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. We previously showed [8] that addition of thioamides to N-(polychloroethylidene)-arenesulfonamides leads to the formation of polyfunctional adducts capable of undergoing cyclization to difficultly accessible 4-sulfonylaminothiazoles [6,7]. In continuation of these studies, in the present work we examined reactions of N-(2,2,2-trichloroethylidene)-and N-(2,2-dichloro-2-phenylethylidene)arenesulfonamides I and II with dithiooxamide with a view to develop methods for the preparation of functionalized N-haloalkyl amides as substrates for subsequent heterocyclization and biological screening.Dithiooxamide derivatives attract interest as starting compounds for the synthesis of a number of S,Nheterocycles [9,10]. In addition, dithiooxamide and its derivatives are used as ligands to obtain metal complexes [11][12][13] and catalysts in asymmetric syntheses [11], as well as in the preparation of inorganic nanotubes [13]. Structural studies on dithiooxamide and its derivatives performed by spectral and quantumchemical methods [14][15][16] are important from the theoretical viewpoint.