Aroxyalkanecarboxylic acids of the type ArOC (RtR2) COOR and their derivatives are used in agriculture as herbicides and plant-growth stimulators [I], and in medicine as hypocholesterolemic, hypolipidemic, and antiarrhythmic agents [2, 3]; they also exhibit antitumor activity [4]. The biological properties of their sulfur analogs--the (organothio) alkanecarboxylic acids and their derivatives, which contain four and six-valent sulfur-- ...