Inside Cover: Copper-Catalyzed Coupling of Oxime Acetates with Sodium Sulfinates: An Efficient Synthesis of Sulfone Derivatives (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 16/2014)

Abstract

Upon treatment with a Cu catalyst oxime acetates can be converted into sulfonylvinylamine products, which will further transform into useful β-ketosulfones upon hydrolysis with H2O. H. Jiang et al. describe in their Communication on page 4205 ff. how the oxime acetates act as both the substrate and oxidant, thus giving the process an environmentally friendly character. The background shows the ancient Chinese symbol “The Eight Trigrams” to indicate the harmony between humans and nature, which is also the purpose of green chemistry.