Thiocarbamoylation of amine-containing compounds

Thiocarbamoylation of aliphatic amines with tetramethylthiuram disulfide (TMTD) was studied. The reactions were established to proceed according to a two-stage mechanism. In the first stage,S-(thiocarbamoyl)thiohydroxylamines and dimethyl dithiocarbamates are formed. The latter exist in equilibrium with dimethyldithiocarbamic acid, which can undergo decomposition to give dimethylamine and carbon disulfide. In the second stage, several competitive transformations of these intermediates into the final products occur,viz., (1) the reactions of CS₂ with primary amines on heating (70–110 °C) yield mixed and symmetrical thioureas and the reactions of CS₂ with secondary amines give symmetrical dithiocarbamates, and (2) insertion of CS₂ intoS-(thiocarbamoyl)thiohydroxylamines affords thiuram disulfides. Thiuram disulfides formed from primary amines decompose to give isothiocyanates, which are converted into thioureas by condensation with amines, whereas thiuram disulfides which are obtained in the reactions with secondary amines and which cannot form thioureas react with amines analogously to TMTD. For Part 4, see Ref. 1. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 334–342, February, 2000.