198 ChemInform Abstract Title compounds such as (II) are liberated from the thiazinium salts (I) by base treatment. Their stability depends sensitively on the substituents at the imino-N. Reaction of (II) with nucleophilic agents afford the pyrimidine-2-thiones (III). As exemplified in the base-induced ring transformation of (IV) to the pyrimidine (V), the title compounds are able to react as nucleophiles too, and versatile intermolecular self-reactions are increasingly favored.