The reactions of C-methylheterocycles with thionyl chloride. Part 3. The transformation of some five-and six-membered heterocycles

Reactions of various five-and six-membered C-methylheterocycles with hot thionyl chloride gave chlorothio intermediates which were not characterized but which gave 1,2,4-thiadiazole derivatives when reacted with amidines and gave thioamides when reacted with amines. When 2,3-dimethyl-6-ethoxycarbonylimidazo-[4,5-b]pyridine ( 26 ) was treated with thionyl chloride a trisulphane 27 was isolated.