Reactions of typical disulfides were studied with five sulfur ylides and two related species. The oxo ylide MeZS+(O) CHz-(1) reacted with diphenyl disulfide (2) to give the bissulfide insertion product (PhS) zCHz (8) but in low yield and in a molar percentage of product from 5 to 22%. Major products were the monosulfide PhSMe (5, 55%) and trissulfide (PhS) &H (10, 69%), which varied in molar percentage from 25-81 and 13-6096, respectively. The ...
