The intramolecular Pishchimuka rearrangement of 3-halopropyl-substituted th
iophosphorylacetonitriles results in the corresponding 2-oxo-3-cyano-1,2-th
iaphosphorinanes as a statistical mixture of two diastereomers, which trans
forms to an individual diastereomer with time; in benzene solution, the lat
ter turns again into an equilibrium mixture of diastereomers.