Guy Lamoureux,a* Katherine Chaves,a  Pierre Le Maguerès,b Monserrat Mezaa
a Escuela de Química, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2060 San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica
Rigaku Americas Corporation, 9009 New Trails Drive, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, 77381-5209
*Correspondence e-mail: guy.lamoureux@ucr.ac.cr
The title compound, C9H7NO2S, is an example of a stable N-alkylthiophthalimide.

Chemical Context

Sulfenamides are a group of compounds containing a S–N bond. The presence of acyl group on the nitrogen stabilize the bond and sulfenamides of phthalimide are known as as N-thiophthalimides.