Sulfide and Sulfoxide Imination

Sulfilimines and sulfoximines are useful synthetic building blocks for chiral ligands and pseudopeptides. Compared to other preparation methods, the direct imination of corresponding sulfides and sulfoxides is a more convenient and straightforward synthetic route. 

Different metal complexes have shown the ability to catalyze these imination reactions, such as rhodium, copper, and iron.22 In 2005, Bolm found that the disilver(I) complex described in Section 6.2.2 catalyzes the imination of sulfides and sulfoxides 

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