Antimony trichloride; a mild, efficient and convenient catalyst for conversion of oxiranes to thiiranes under non-aqueous conditions

605-606<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: " times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-in;mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-IN">Oxiranes are converted to their corresponding thiiranes in excellent yields (95-98%) using ammoniun thiocyailate and catalytic amounts of antimony trichloride.</span