Abstract
The two-component reaction of 2,4-bis((Z)-arylidene)dihydrothiophen-3(2H)-ones and 2-(1-arylethylidene)malononitriles proceeded through a tandem chemoselective Michael addition-tautomerization-Thorpe-Ziegler cyclization sequence of reactions in a single step affording novel 2-thiaspiro[4.5]deca-6,8-dienes in quantitative yields.