It was soon found that anilines with substituents in other than ortho positions3 gave little or no thiocarbanilide by the method usually described in books of preparati~ n.~ Thus, 3-nitro-, 3, 5-dichloro-, 3, 4-and 3, 5-dibromoanilines gave no product when treated for several hours according to method 1 (see below), while with method 3 the yields were 87, 71, 47 and 85%, respectively On the other hand, with method 1, the yields of thiocarbanilide from m- ...