1-Phenylthiotricyclo[4.1.0.0 2,7 ]heptane reacted with MeSO 2 Br and BrCH 2 SO 2 Br directly at mixing at 20°C in CH 2 Cl 2 along a ionic (electrophilic with respect to bromine) mechanism affording a product of an antistereoselective addition to the central bicyclobutane C 1 -C 7 bond of the norpinane structure. The reaction product contains the exo-oriented sulfonyl group in the geminal position to the SPh substituent. The structure of the adduct with MeSO 2 Br in a single crystal was determined by XRD analysis. Scheme 1. X SO 2 Ph SMe Va, Ve PhSO 2 X SR IIIa _ IIIc, IVb, IVd SR I, II PhSO 2 X PhSO 2 X, hvIt was shown formerly [1, 2] that 1-phenylthio-and 1-methylthiotricyclo[4.1.0.0 2,7 ]heptanes (I) and (II) under UV irradiation were subject to addition of benzenesulfonyl bromide, benzenesulfonyl chloride, S-phenylbenzenesulfonothioate, and S-methylbenzenesulfonothioate exclusively at the central bicyclobutane C 1 -C 7 bond strictly regio-and stereoselectively with the formation of norpinane compounds IIIa-IIIc and IVb, IVd.The reaction in the dark of compound II with benzenesulfonyl bromide and also with Se-phenylbenzenesulfonoselenoate resulted in another order and another stereochemistry of the reagent addition to the C 1 -C 7 bond: we obtained norpinane compounds Va and Ve [2].The difference in the behavior of the methylthioether II with respect to benzenesulfonyl halides was ascribed to the change in the addition mechanism from the radical at UV irradiation (benzenesulfonyl chloride) to the ionic one in the dark (benzenesulfonyl bromide). The successful reaction in the dark in this case is apparently favored by lower strength and larger polarity of the SO 2 -Br bond compared with the SO 2 -Cl bond and also by higher nucleophilicity of compound II than compound I.We investigated in this study the reactions of phenylthioether I with more active than PhSO 2 Br sources of electrophilic bromine, methane-and bromomethanesulfonyl bromides, aiming at establishing the regio-and stereoselectivity of these reagents addition. The reaction was carried out at 0°C in CH 2 Cl 2 over 6-8 h using equimolar amounts of the reagents; the reaction did not require a special initiation. By column chromatography on Al 2 O 3 we isolated from the reaction mixtures norpinane compounds VI and VII analogous to compounds Va R = Ph (I, III), Me (II, IV); X = Br (a), Cl (b), SPh (c), SMe (d), SePh (e).