Recent progress on thiocarbamates: synthesis and applications

Thiocarbamates are a class of molecules with important value and significant roles in organic chemistry. Due to their unique chemical properties and heteroatom-rich molecular structure, thiocarbamates have broad application prospects in organic synthesis, analytical chemistry, materials science and biomedicine. In recent years, methodological studies on the synthesis of these compounds have garnered increasing attention in the scientific community. This mini-review summarizes the representative progress in the effective synthesis of thiocarbamates through different synthetic strategies from thermochemistry to photochemistry or electrochemistry in the past decade, emphasizes the diversity and applicability of their products, and expounds their mechanism principles where possible.