O V Lately a report was published on the reaction of ophenylenediamine with N-arylmaleimides [1] leading through the recyclization of the latter to substituted quinazolinones. We attempted to bring into similar reaction the o-aminothiophenol and 3-bromomaleimide. It was expected that the reaction of aminothiophenol (I) with 3-bromomaleimide II through the stage of S-alkylation followed by recyclization of intermediate III would provide N-phenyl-2-(3-oxo-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzothiazin-2-ylidene)acetamide (IV) (see the Scheme). It was established however that in reaction performed in ethanol and other solvents acetamide IV was the minor product, and the major product unexpectedly proved to be 2-phenyl-1,2,3,9-tetrahydrobenzo[b]pyrrolo[1,4]thiazine-1,3-dione (V) formerly obtained [2] in the reaction of aminothiophenol and 3,4-dibromomaleimide. The formation of this product apparently occurred by the alternative transformation of the intermediate, 3-(2-aminophenylsulfanyl)-1-phenyl-2,5-dihydro-1H-pyrrole-2,5dione (III), through the stages of amino group addition to an activated double bond by the Michael type reaction with the subsequent oxidation of compound VI, 2-phenyl1,2,3,3a,9,9a-hexahydrobenzo[b]pyrrolo[3,4-e][1,4]thiazine-1,3-dione. N1-Phenyl-2-(3-oxo-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzothiazin-2-ylidene)acetamide (IV) and 2-phenyl1,2,3,9-tetrahydrobenzo[b]pyrrolo[3,4-e][1,4]thiazine-1,3-dione (V). Equimolar quantities (0.01 mol each) of phenylmaleimide and 2-aminothiophenol were heated in ethanol for 1–2 h. The precipitate was separated,
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