Thionation of the benzil hydrazones 3 with Lawesson's reagent afforded
the 3,6-dihydro-2H-1,3,4-thiadiazines 4 by an intramolecular cyclisat
ion. This reaction was shown to be diastereospecific and allowed the f
ormation of the exo compounds 4b-e. When the homochiral SAMP-hydrazone
3f was used, the reaction afforded enantiomerically pure (4R,6R,9S)-4
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