Intermolecular addition of different sulfonamides to alkenes and conjugated dienes can be carried out using a low loading of (triphenyl phosphite)gold(I) chloride and silver triflate as a catalytic mixture. The reaction can be performed under conventional thermal or microwave conditions and at rt in the case of dienes. Terminal alkenes undergo regioselective hydroamination at the internal carbon atom and dienes at the less substituted double bond.

Comparative studies about the hydroamination of unactivated alkenes and dienes catalyzed by either cationic gold(I) triphenyl phosphite complexes or silver salts were performed using sulfon-

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Silver triflate is used as efficient catalyst for the intermolecular addition of 4-toluenesulfonamide to alkenes under thermal or microwave heating. The hydroamination of 1,3-dienes can be performed at 85 °C with low catalyst loading (0.1-5 mol%) or at room temperature using 1 mol% of AgOTf, the use of HOTf affording similar results.

Design education is practical and theoretical; however, it does not usually include the study of cultural heritage. Nonetheless, relations with academia have been strong since the 18th century, when the need to educate designers spread across the continent to improve design and make it competitive in the market. In this paper, we recover that spirit and act as mediators between heritage and young people to create links and preserve cultural heritage. A case study was conducted at the Public Valencian Design School with 31 product design students. The methodology applied was based on iterative processes that allowed students to discover design and silk heritage when they proposed innovative ways of approaching it. A qualitative survey was used to evaluate the case study. The results showed that students increased their appreciation for cultural heritage (by more than 90%) as well as their willingness to preserve it and reuse it in their future creations. Collaboration between cultural heritage and design might foster sustainable conservation and mark the future steps of ongoing collaboration.