Thiobenzoyl azolides

Contrary to carboxylic acids which, under normal conditions, only give salts with amines, dithiocarboxylic acids, RCS2H, are quite reactive in nucleophilic displacement reactions. However, the compounds are unpleasant to handle and, due to their limited stability, often give only low yields of thioamides in the reaction with amines.The approach was successfully employed in the synthesis of thiobenzoyl azolides, e. g. in the formation of (7) according to equation (4). °... 

Thioacyl chlorides, RCSCl, are powerful thioacylating agents as is obvious from the quantitative thiobenzoylation of the only moderately nucleophilic nitrogen in thiocarbamate (13 equation 5). However, severe limitations are the difficult accessibility of thioacyl chlorides and their thermal lability. Even if they are prepared from dithiocarboxylic acids using an improved procedure, only thioaroyl chlorides, particularly PhCSCl (12), can be handled sufficiently easily to be used in synthetic work. Thus, various azoles react with (12) to furnish /V-thiobenzoyl azolides (14) in the presence of excess azole or NEts (equation 6) a particularly clean and fast reaction is achieved if IV-silylated azoles are employed. However, considering the fact that the chloride has to be prepared from the dithiocarboxylic acid, the approach of equation (4) presents a shortcut to the products. 

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