The products of the addition of nucleophiles (alcohols, amines) to the
cyano group of 5-(cyanoimino)thiadiazolines 1 undergo a Boulton-Katri
tzky rearrangement. The thiadiazoles 4 are formed by subsequent nitril
e elimination. In the case of bicyclic thiadiazoloazepine 5 an equilib
rium mixture of unrearranged iminothiadiazoline 6 and rearranged thiad
iazole 7 is obtained as an intermediate.