Page 1. Tetrahedron Letters,Vol.27,No.32,pp 3791-3794,1986 0040-4039/86 $3.00 + .OO Printed in Great Britain Pergamon Journals Ltd. COBALT(I1) CHLORIDE CATALYSED COUPLING OF THIOLS AND ANHYDRIDES: A NEW AND EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS OF THIOL ESTERS Saeed Ahmad and Javed Iqbal# Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India ...