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The name of the parent six-membered sulfur-containing heterocycle is thiane. It is numbere...

The name of the parent six-membered sulfur-containing heterocycle is thiane. It is numbered beginning at sulfur. Multiple incorporation of sulfur in the ring is indicated by the prefixes di-, tri-, and so on.

(a) How many methyl-substituted thianes are there? Which ones are chiral?


(b) Write structural formulas for 1,4-dithiane and 1,3,5-trithiane.


(c) Which dithiane isomer (1,2-, 1,3-, or 1,4-) is a disulfide?


(d) Draw the two most stable conformations of the sulfoxide derived from thiane.

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