Keywords: N-amidinothiourea, benzoylacetylene, 4-phenyl-1,2-dihydropyrimidine-2-thione, [4-phenyl-2H-1,3-thiazin]-2-ylideneguanidinium perchlorate and acetoxytrifluoroborate, heterocyclization.In a continuation of the study of the reactions of α-acetylenic ketones with sulfur-and nitrogencontaining ambident nucleophiles [1-3] as a suitable method for the synthesis of N,S-containing heterocyclic compounds, we have investigated the reaction of benzoylacetylene 1 with N-amidinothiourea 2.The choice of compound 2 as the subject for this investigation is because it contains both thioamide and guanidine units, is a potential polydentate nucleophile with several reaction centers arising from intramolecular mesomorphic interactions. Condensation of thioamides and thiourea with α,β-unsaturated ketones, esters of propiolic and acetylenedicarboxylic acids [4-7] is one of the basic methods for the preparation of substituted 1,3-thiazines which are used as fungicides, pharmaceuticals, and vulcanizing agents [8]. Moreover guanidine is involved in the classical heterocyclization reaction which leads to biologically important derivatives of pyrimidine, and guanidine is a structural fragment of nucleic acids and streptomycin.The reaction of benzoylacetylene 1 with N-amidinothiourea 2 (1 : 2 = 1:1) was carried out in glacial acetic acid at 20°C with the addition of an equimolar quantity of HClO 4 or BF 3 ·Et 2 O. Under these conditions the reaction proceeded directly to [4-phenyl-2H-1,3-thiazin]-2-ylideneguanidinium perchlorate or acetoxytrifluoroborate (3a and 3b respectively). The formation of the substituted 1,3-thiazines 3a,b probably occurs via the intermediate formation the benzoylvinylisothiouronium salts 4 which were not isolated under these conditions. However when the reaction of benzoylacetylene 1 with 3-amidino-2-thiourea 5 (specially synthesized by us) was carried out in glacial acetic acid at 20°C 3-amidino-2-benzoylvinylisothiourea perchlorate 4a was obtained, which on heating in acetic acid was converted in high yield to the corresponding 1,3-thiazine 3a as a result of attack by the nitrogen atom of the thioamide unit on the electron poor carbon atom of the carbonyl group.