1 School of Petrochemical Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials & Technology, Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Fine Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, P. R. China. yujintao@cczu.edu.cn jiangcheng@cczu.edu.cn.
A novel copper-catalyzed N-thioetherification of sulfoximines under mild reaction conditions was developed. In this procedure, the N-S bond formation was achieved using readily available disulfides as the sulfur source.