“…(1)- (6) 179.8 (bromine-free analogue), 80.2, 55.4, 41.2, 39.9, 39.9 kJ mol -~ (for the bromine-free 1,3-dibenzyl analogue)] in Sandstr6m (1983) and references therein. X-ray data: (1) 2-p-bromobenzoyl-3,3-bis(methylthio)-2-propene-1-nitrile, 1.369 (7) (Abrahamsson, Rehnberg, Liljefors & Sandstr6m, 1974); (2) 3,3-bis(methylthio)-2-nitro-2-propene-1-nitrile, 1.376 (4) (present work); (3)[dimethylamino(methylthio)methylene]malononitrile, 1.397 (8) (Adhikesavalu & Venkatesan, 1983a); (4) 3-[bis (dimethylamino)methylene]-3-phenyl-2-propanone, 1.409 (4) (Kamath & Venkatesan, 1984); (5) 3-(1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinylidene)-2-phenyl-2-propene-l-nitrile, 1.415 (8) (Kamath & Venkatesan, 1983, unpublished Final R = 0.064 for 8316 unique significant reflections. This is the first structural report of both molecules.…”