Cover Picture: Cycloadditions and Methylene Transfer in Reactions of Substituted Thiocarbonyl S-Methylides with Thiobenzophenone: A Computational Study (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 8/2005)

The cover picture shows the potential energy diagram of methylene transfer from 4,4,5,5‐tetramethylcyclopentanethione S‐methylide to thiobenzophenone via a biradical intermediate which wins over a possible formation of regioisomeric cycloadducts. Methylene transfer reactions together with 1,3‐dipolar cycloadditions of other thiocarbonyl S‐methylides to thiones are described by R. Huisgen et al. on p. 1519 ff. DFT calculations on the mechanism of these reactions, concerted or stepwise, are reported by R. Sustmann et al. on p. 1505 ff.