Sulfoxide-to-sulfilimine conversions: Use of modified Burgess-type reagents

Article abstract of DOI:10.1002/adsc.201300766

Sulfoxides can directly be converted into N-cyanosulfilimines using a new Burgess-type reagent. By applying this strategy with a related reagent variant, synthetically valuable NH-sulfoximines have been prepared from sulfoxides via N-protected sulfilimines. The practical three-step reaction sequence is generally high yielding and applicable to a wide range of substrates. The sulfoxide-to-sulfilimine conversion can also be performed under solvent-reduced conditions in a ball mill. Copyright