title: Sulfonimidamides: efficient chiral iminoiodane precursors for diastereoselective copper-catalyzed aziridination of olefins.
abstract: N-(p-Toluenesulfonyl)-p-toluenesulfonimidamide reacts with iodosylbenzene to afford in situ a chiral iminoiodane. The latter gives, in the presence of a copper(I) catalyst, a nitrene that is very efficiently transferred under stoichiometric conditions to a variety of alkenes with diastereoselectivities up to 60%. [reaction: see text]
authors.affiliation: Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS, avenue de la terrasse, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
authors.forename: Pablo H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Di Chenna
authors.forename: Fabien
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Robert-Peillard
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dauban
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Dodd