Rhodium(II)-catalyzed asymmetric sulfur(VI) reduction of diazo sulfonylamidines

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publication date

  • February 2012

abstract

  • Diazo sulfonylamidines readily undergo enantioselective oxygen transfer from sulfur to carbon atom in the presence of chiral rhodium(II) carboxylates resulting in chiral sulfinylamidines. This unusual asymmetric atom transfer "reduction" occurs rapidly under mild conditions, and sulfinylamidines are obtained in excellent yield.