“…[3] Additionally, they readily undergo electrophilic substitution in the a postion and have, for instance, been used as intermediates in the synthesis of aamino acids, [4,5] amino alcohols, [6] substituted uridines and adenosines, [7] alkaloids, [8] b-lactams, [9] and nitrogen heterocycles. [10,11] As early as the 1960s Stirling and McDowell investigated the kinetics of the intermolecular addition of achiral amines to alkenyl sulfones. [12] Today, there exist several procedures for intramolecular [6,8,13] and intermolecular [7,10,11,14] aza-Michael additions to alkenyl sulfones.…”