By the catalysis of palladium(0), S-allyl thiocarbamates 1 react with aryl iodides and vinyl bromides to give allyl aryl sulfides and allyl vinyl sulfides, respectively, in good yields.
of higher thermodynamic stability can be prepared in high purity under either thermal activation or palladium(0) catalysis. Although the thermodynamically less stable regioisomers of 2 are, in general, hard to be prepared in high purity, some of them (e.g., 2d and 2h′) can be obtained with an exclusive or high selectivity by the catalysis of palladium(II). The stereoisomeric pair of 2j and 2j′ can be