Summary The salts of 2, 4, 6-tribromothiophenol, as well as the free thiophenol, react in a perfectly normal manner with halogens and alkyl halides to give the disulfide or thio ethers in nearly quantitative yield. The products contain nothing analogous to the amorphous polydihalogenophenylene oxides obtained from the trihalogenated phenols and phenolates. The first stage in the reaction of both phenolates and thiophenolates is probably the ...
