Copper-catalyzed sulfonamides formation from sodium sulfinates and amines

A new and convenient method for the construction of sulfonamides via a copper-catalyzed oxidative coupling between sodium sulfinates and amines with 1 atm O-2 or DMSO as the oxidant was described. This method provides efficient and robust synthesis of functional sulfonamides in good yields and excellent chemoselectivity. And detailed mechanistic studies showed that this transformation may go through a single electron transfer (SET) pathway.