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The first general method for direct displacement of sulfur from chiral carbon centers has been developed. Chiral mercaptans are readily converted to the corresponding thiaphosphonium salts by treatment with t-butyl hypochlorite and hexamethylphosphorous triamide. Metathesis with ammonium hexafluorophosphate provides stable, isolable, crystalline salts which undergo clean nucleophilic diplacement with a variety of heteroatom and carbon based nucleophiles, affording products in which the stereochemistry has been inverted. |