thiolate substituents effectively block further secondary interactions or of some more subtle steric or electronic effects remains problematical.Acknowledgment. We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the donors of the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, the Herman Frasch Foundation, and Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine. Funding for the 300-MHz NMR facility was provided by the National Science Foundation.Supplementary Material Available: Tables of bond lengths (Tables SI and S10), bond angles, (Tables S2 and Sll), anisotropic temperature factors (Tables S3 and SI2), and calculated hydrogen atom positions (Tables S4 and S13) for I and III, tables of bond lengths (Table S6), bond angles (Table S7), and anisotropic temperature factors (Table S8)for II, and a summary of the experimental details for the X-ray diffraction studies of I-III (Table S15) (22 pages); tables of observed and calculated structure factors (Tables S5, S9, and S14) for I-III (65 pages). Ordering information is given on any current masthead page.