Susana Barriga, Lidia S. Konstantinova, Carlos F. Marcos, Oleg A. Rakitin, Charles W. Rees, Tomás Torroba, Andrew J. P. White and David J. Williams
Triisopropylamine 1a and S2Cl2, in the presence of DABCO and formic acid, give the bicyclic amine 2a, and its N-dealkylated product 3, rather than the tricyclic bisdithiolothiazine system 7 produced by Hünig’s base 1b. However, when S2Cl2 is in molar excess over DABCO, Hünig’s base and related N-alkyldiisopropylamines 1c–g also give the analogous bicyclic compounds 2b–g together with the tricyclic compounds 7b–g. The N-benzyl compound 2c is debenzylated quantitatively to the secondary amine 3 by sulfuric acid. X-Ray crystallography of N,N-bis(dithiolyl)ethylamine 2b shows the two dithiole rings to be steeply inclined to each other (85°) and the geometry at nitrogen to be slightly pyramidal. The crystal packing is dominated by S· · ·
O electrostatic and weak C
O
· · ·
Cl charge-transfer interactions.