Enantioselective Mannich-type reaction of sulfonylimines having 2-pyridylsulfonyl group as a novel stereocontroller

A catalytic enantioselective Mannich-type reaction of N-(2-pyridylsulfonyl)imines in the presence of chiral bis(oxazoline)s afforded the products with high enantioselectivity. Asymmetric induction was supposed to be efficiently controlled by a new chiral center on the sulfur dynamically induced through the discriminative coordination of a chiral Lewis acid to one of the sulfonyl oxygens.