“…To prepare compound (II), a solution of (chlorocarbonyl)-disulfanyl chloride (Schroll & Barany, 1986) (814 mg, 5.0 mmol) in CH 2 Cl 2 (15 mL) was added over 10 min to a stirred solution of N-methylaniline (2.2 mL, 20 mmol) in CH 2 Cl 2 (11 mL) at 273 K. The homogeneous reaction mixture was allowed to warm to 298 K, stirred an additional 30 min, and standard extractive workup [compare to procedure above for (I)] gave the product as a brown oil (1.44 g, 94% crude yield). The crude product was purified by flash column chromatography, eluting with hexane-ethyl acetate (8:1), to provide a yellow oil (1.37 g), which after storing under hexanes at 253 K overnight produced the title product as an offwhite solid (757 mg, 2.5 mmol, 50%), m.p.…”