A General and Expeditious One-Pot Synthesis of Sulfoxides in High Optical Purity from Norephedrine-Derived Sulfamidites

2003 
A general and simple procedure for preparing any kind of enantiomerically enriched sulfoxide starting from norephedrine-derived N-benzyloxycarbonylsulfamidite 3a is reported. After one-pot reaction of 3a with RMgX, HBF4, and R‘MgX, a variety of sulfoxides 6 are obtained in ee usually higher than 93% and isolated yields ranging between 50 and 78%. The obtained configuration is tunable by simply electing the order of the addition of the reagents.
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