Efficient copper-mediated reactions of nitrenes derived from sulfonimidamides

Org Lett. 2004 Sep 30;6(20):3573-5. doi: 10.1021/ol0485520.

Abstract

[reaction: see text] Sulfonimidamides lead efficiently to nitrenes and have been converted to sulfimides, sulfoximines, and aziridines in good yields, through a copper-mediated multicomponent reaction. The stereogenic sulfur atom and the trivalent nitrogen atom present in the molecules open the way to asymmetric synthesis, whose first results are presented.