“…In almost all heterocyclic radicals studied to date, the thioaminyl fragment is a part of a longer, three-or fourmembered array of heteroatoms such as -N-S-S-N-(1a, 35 1b, 28 1c, 28 1d, 59 1e, 28,60 1g 59,61 ), -N-S-N-S-(2d 29,62 ), -N-S-N-(4c, 27 4e, 27 4g, 24 5, 63 10 64 ), -S-N-S-(3a, 62,65 3e, 30 3f, 66,67 5, 63 6h, 68,69 6i, 66 9h, 64 9i, 66 10 64 ), and -N-S-S-(7h, 62,70 7i, 71 11 6 ), as shown in Figure 1. Radicals containing the -S-Nfragment connected directly to the carbon framework are rare, and 8 72 as well as two compounds recently reported by us 23 are the only examples. There have been relatively few parent radicals synthesized and studied in detail.…”