Abstract
1,4-Diaryl-1-aza-1, 3-butadienes (I) undergo a stereospecific 1,4-cycloaddition reaction with aryl sulphonyl nitrosites (II) generated ‘in situ’ by the reaction of aryl sulphinic acid and ethyl nitrite to yield six-membered cycloadducts characterized as 2-aryl sulphonyl-3, 6-diaryl-2H, 3H, 6H-[1, 2, 3] oxadiazine derivatives (III) in good yield.