Fluorenethione S-oxide undergoes (2 + 4) cycloadditions with azoalkenes to yield 2H-1,2,3-thiadiazine 1 -oxides together with a small amount of the regioisomeric 6H-1,3,4-thiadiazine 1 -oxides. Fluorenethione, with azoalkenes, undergoes (2 + 4) regiospecific cycloaddition reactions leading to the formation of 6H-1,3,4-thiadiazine derivatives. Diarylsulphines and diarylthiones fail to react with azoalkenes.AZOALKENES are well known to undergo (4 + 2)-type cycloaddition reactions with a variety of carbon-carbon dienophiles and heterodienophiles 5 9 6 leading to the formation of six-membered heterocyclic compounds. C,,H2,N,0S and mass spectra showed their molecular ions at nzle 496.Mass spectra of both ( 6a) and (6b) showed the same fragmentation pattern with prominent peaks at mle 357 ( M + -PhNSO) and 139 (PhNSO), in agreement with R' * One of the referees pointed out that the sulphinyl oxygen in ( 7) is almost certainly tvans-oriented with respect to the adjacent phenyl group, owing to steric requirements for peroxyacid oxidation of sulphides to sulphoxides.