A. Padwa et al., BIMOLECULAR 4-CYCLOADDITION REACTIONS OF CROSS-CONJUGATED BETAINES WITH ELECTRON-RICH PI-SYSTEMS(2), Tetrahedron letters, 34(34), 1993, pp. 5405-5408
Bicyclic anhydro-2-oxo-4-hydroxy-1,3-thiazinium hydroxides undergo 1,4
-dipolar cycloadditions with various electron rich pi-systems to give
4+2-cycloadducts which on further heating, extrude carbonyl sulfide pr
oducing substituted alpha-pyridones.