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Ethylene trithiocarbonate

organic compounds

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2023
Entity authorityQ117265481 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ethylene trithiocarbonate is an organosulfur compound with the formula C2H4S2CS. This yellow solid is prepared by alkylation of trithiocarbonate with 1,2-dibromoethane. Ethylene trithiocarbonate is an intermediate in the synthesis of tetrathiafulvalene and its derivatives.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ethylene trithiocarbonate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.