Aminohydroxylation of olefins with tert-alkyl sulfonamides

摘要

Tert-alkyl sulfonamides chloramine salts are used as nitrogen sources in the catalytic aminohydroxylation and/or aziridination of olefins. The tert-alkyl sulfonamides chloramine salts are close to Chloramine T with respect to their reactivity as nitrogen sources with olefins. However, unlike the tosyl sulfonyl amine group of Chloramine T, the resulting t-alkyl sulfonylamino functionalities can be easily converted to an unprotected amine under mild acidic conditions making the method a simple and cost efficient approach for producing unsubstituted hydroxy amine and/or aziridine products.