Study of direction of cyclization of malonodithioamides as a method of investigation of reactivity of α-diazothioacetamides

The reaction of malonothioamides with benzene-sulfonyl azide and 2-azido-3-ethylbenzthiazolium tetrafluoroborate gave amides of 2-diazothiomalonic acid, which underwent cyclization to a mixture of 5-N-R-amino-1,2,3-thiadiazole-4-carbothioamides and 5-amino-1,2,3-thiadiazole-4-N-R-carbothioamides. The ratio of the isomeric thiadiazoles formed in this reaction is the same as in the reactions of 2-diazo-2-cyanoacetamides, 5-amino-1,2,3-thiadiazole- and 5-mercapto-1,2,3-triazole-4-carboxamides with P₄S₁₀ and of 5-amino-1, 2,3-thiadiazole-4-carbonitriles with H₂S; it is characteristic of the influence of substituents on the reactivity of -diazothioacetamides. It was found that the cyclization of the diazo compounds is accelerated when electron-acceptor substituents are attached to the nitrogen atom of the carbothioamide group.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 8, pp. 1106–1112, August, 1992.