This paper is dedicated to Professor Juzo Nakayama on the occasion of his 65th birthday and retirement.Tandem nucleophilic addition/epoxy ring-opening cyclization reactions of 2-(3-phenyloxiranyl)phenyl isothiocyanates to produce 4-hydroxy(phenyl)methyl-4H -3,1-benzothiazines were investigated. In the reactions, carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen nucleophiles were introduced at the 2-position of the benzothiazines, together with the two adjacent stereogenic centers arising from the epoxy carbon centers. We also found an interesting stereospecific rearrangement of 2-(alkylamino)-4-hydroxy(phenyl)methyl-4H -3,1-benzothiazines to 1-alkyl-3-(2-(trans-3-phenylthiiran-2-yl)-phenyl)urea.
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