“…The enantioselective sulfoxidation of prochiral sulfides is one of the most challenging approaches to chiral sulfoxides, and catalyzed processes based on metal complexes [ 3 , 4 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ] and metal-free systems [ 17 ] have been described in the literature. Molybdenum-catalyzed enantioselective sulfoxidations have been investigated [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 ] and, in general, the Mo catalysts provided results that are somewhat lower than those of other metals, as for example titanium [ 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 ] or vanadium [ 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 ] complexes. However, we have recently demonstrated that the use of the imidazolium-based dicarboxylic compound ( S , S )-1-(1-carboxy-2-methylpropyl)-3-(1-carboxylate-2-methylpropyl)imidazolium (HL iPr in Scheme 1 ), as inductor of chirality, in combination with oxidoperoxidomolybdenum complexes, afforded a system capable to achieve by kinetic resolution a value of 83% ee in the sulfoxidation of alkyl aryl sulfides [ 42 ].…”