G. Adiwidjaja et al., DICYANOMETHYLENETHIIRANES FROM THIOKETENES AND TETRACYANOETHYLENE OXIDE, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (20), 1993, pp. 2385-2386
Reaction of dialkylthioketenes with tetracyanoethylene oxide yields di
cyanomethylenethiiranes in a sequence involving [3 + 2] cycloaddition,
cycloreversion and rearrangement. In contrast, a thioketene with a su
lfide moiety reacts preferentially on the latter to give the stable su
lfur ylide 9.