New formation mechanism of allylic trithiocarbonates from sodium O-(2-Alkenyl) dithiocarbonates via sequential pericyclic reactions: Density functional theory study.

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G(d) level demonstrated that sodium O-(3-phenylallyl) dithiocarbonate undergoes [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement to sodium S-(1-phenylallyl) dithiocarbonate, which then isomerizes to the more thermodynamically stable sodium S-(3-phenylallyl) dithiocarbonate. The calculations also showed that sodium 2-alkenyl trithiocarbonates and their esters are more labile towards the allylic rearrangement.