Thietane carbenes, rearrangement

Electron deficient species can attack the unshared electron pairs of heteroatoms, to form ylides, such as in the reaction of thietane with bis(methoxycarbonyl)carbene. The S —C ylide rearranges to 2,2-bis(methoxycarbonyl)thiolane (Section 5.14.3.10.1). A"-Ethoxycar-bonylazepine, however, is attacked by dichlorocarbene at the C=C double bonds, with formation of the trans tris-homo compound (Section 5.16.3.7). 

Thietane reacts with bis(methoxycarbonyl)carbene to give a S+-C ylide which rearranges to 2,2-bis(methoxycarbonyl)thiolane (CHEC 5.14.3.10.1). 

An analogous mechanistic scheme (equation 87) has been proposed for the flash vacuum pyrolysis of dimethylsilyl(trimethylsilyl)thioketene148 (256). The pyrolysis of bis(trimethylsilyl)thioketene (257) leads to a more complicated product mixture (equation 88). With 47% conversion, a mixture of trimethylsilylacetylene, 1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne, bis(trimethylsilyl)acetylene, (trimethylsilyl)thioketene, 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-2,4-disila-l-thietane and 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-2,4-disila-l,3-dithietane was obtained. All products can be rationalized, however, by the assumption that carbene 258 undergoes not only a silylcarbene-to-silene rearrangement (as in the preceding two cases) but also isomerization to 2-thiirene and insertion into a methyl-C, H bond. 

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