We interpret these spectral changes in the following way. The disappearance of the triplet at 4.46 ppm is due to an HD exchange of weakly acidic active methylene protons (1-2, Scheme I). Then, in this CD30D/CD30Na solution, the sulfide is displaced by an OCD3 group to generate 6, presumably via elimination-addition reactions. Since no N-vinylsydnone (5) was detected (on the NMR time scale), it is postulated that a relatively slow p-elimination of ...