“…A search of the Cambridge Structural Database (Groom et al, 2016) for related anthracene-substituted dithioacetals did not reveal any structure hits. However, there are several examples of monothioethers attached on an anthracenyl scaffold and include {9-[(2-chloroethyl)thio]methyl}anthracene (CETMAN; Lewis et al, 1976), 1,6-bis(9-anthryl)-2,5-dithiahexane (LEYHIH; Schwarze et al, 2007) and S-(9-anthryl)methyl-3,5-dinitrothiobenzoate (VEZLUI; Fowelin et al, 2007). A search for the bis(benzylthio)methane motif HC(SCH 2 Ph) 2 revealed only three similar structures, namely 2,6,10, 14,19,24-hexa-p-benz-4,8,12,16,17,21,22,26-octathiatricyclo(9.5.5.5 3,9 )hexacosaphane benzene clathrate (CUHLUM; Takemura et al, 1984), 4-nitrophenyl-[bis(benzylthio)]methane (SUNMAQ; Binkowska et al, 2009) and 2 (Thomas et al, 2001), as fluorescence materials (Chen et al, 2017) and as electrocatalysts for H and O evolution reactions (Gao & Chen, 2017).…”