Robert Flammang, Monique Barbieux-Flammang, Pascal Gerbaux and Carl Th. Pedersen
The thermal behaviour of
1,6,6aλ4-trithiapentalene 3 and some
methyl-substituted derivatives 5–7 has been investigated using a
combination of flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP), tandem mass spectrometry
(MS–MS) and matrix isolation IR spectroscopy. The main products of
the fragmentation (losses of CS and/or CH2
C
S)
are shown to be thiophene-3-thiones (or the thiol tautomers) which are
also shown to be readily available by direct sulfuration of thiophenes
in chemical ionization (CS2 reagent gas) conditions.