While the S-alkyl- or S-phenyl-2,3-butadienethioates 4 a-c are synthesized via the usual “Wittig ylide way”, the corresponding 2-methyl-2,3-butadienethioates 9 a-d and the 2-methyl-4.4-diphenyl-2,3-butadienethioates 9 e,f are obtained by condensation of the allenic acids 7 a,b with the thiols and thiophenols 8 in the presence of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) and a catalytic am ount of 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP). In contrast to N- or O-phenyl 2,3- butadienamides or -esters, resp., the phenyl derivatives of 4 and 9 do not undergo the intram olecular Diels-Alder reaction, but by heating, all representatives of 4 only decompose, while 9 a-d and 9 e,f rearrange to 3-alkyl(aryl)thio-2-cyclobuten-1-ones 12a-d and to 3-arylthio- 1-naphthols 14a, b, resp. Heating of the cyclobutenone 12d in the presence of N-methylaniline furnishes the 2-butenanilide 16. On reacting 1-phenylthio-1-propyne 17 with diphenylketene 18, the diphenylacetate 19 is isolated, where the naphthol derivative 14a represents the ester moiety.