Novel Thiofomylation of Primary and Secondary Amines Using N-Aryl-1,2,3,4,5,7-Pentathiazocanes

Abstract

Heating of N-aryl-1,2,3,4,5,7-pentathiazocanes 1 in the presence of primary and secondary amines afforded N-Alkyl or N,N-dialkylthioformamides 5, and similar heating of 1 in the absence of amines afforded an inseparable mixture of acyclic polysulfides 4 bearing a thioformanilide moiety on each terminal. Bisthioformanilides 4 were also converted into 5 by treating with these amines, and the thioformylation was assumed to proceed through a pathway involving the ring fission of 1 and the subsequent nucleophilic attack of these amines onto the thioformyl group of 4.