perfluoroalkylated sulfoxides with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride behaves as highly electrophilic entities. Their reaction with nitriles allows a Ritter-like process leading to the new fluorinated acylsulfilimines 1–21 after hydrolysis. This flexible methodology allows some variation of both the sulfoxide and nitrile components. Derived acylsulfoximines 22–25 or free sulfoximines 26–28 could be selectively
the preparation of trifluoromethyl N-acyl sulfilimines to the case of bromodifluoro- and dichlorofluoromethyl derivatives. Attempts to convert such N-acyl sulfilimines to free NH-sulfilimines failed. However, a strategy based on the reaction of their direct ditriflyl ketal precursor with amines allows the isolation of either original sulfilimino iminium salts using secondary amines or of free NH-sulfilimines