“…A comparison of the 13 C NMR chemical shifts of compounds 66 and model 5,5-dimethyl-3-methylthiocyclohex-2-en-1-thione (23d) has been carried out. All the data obtained allowed a conclusion concerning the existence of dithionesulfide 66 in the gas phase and in solution, presumably as a non-planar cis-trans conformer (figure 4) [44]. Other pathways to the synthesis of bis(5,5-dimethyl-3-thioxocyclohex-1-enyl) sulfide (66) have been studied [41].…”