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Natassa Lional1, Fedor M Miloserdov1, Han Zuilhof1,2
1Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen, 6708 WE, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
S(VI) compounds with multiple N or O substituents are often difficult to make and several crucial routes, such as multimodal SuFEx (Sulfur (VI) Fluoride Exchange) chemistry, rely on the highly useful but hazardous SOF4 gas. Safety issues and inaccessibility of SOF4 strongly hamper the developments of these organic compounds. Here we describe the synthesis and applications of 2-methylimidazole-1-(N-tert-octyl)sulfonimidoyl fluoride (ImSF), a novel bench-stable analogue of SOF4. ImSF is synthesized on a gram scale via a double fluorination of t-OctNSO. We show ImSF can undergo substitution reactions with phenols and amines, which lead to sulfurimidates and sulfuramidimidates, respectively, the intrinsically chiral analogous of medicinally relevant sulfates and sulfamates in which an S=O moiety is replaced by S=NR unit. Finally we demonstrate that such substitutions can occur enantiospecifically, providing the first entry to chiral sulfurimidates and sulfuramidimidates.
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