Abstract
Selective carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond cleavage was achieved in a one reaction system. With this strategy a novel Pd/Cu-catalyzed aerobic oxidative oxosulfonation of olefins with DMSO has been developed. Preliminary mechanistic investigations indicated that CO/O(2) assisted the bond cleavage and the leaving groups from the starting materials were trapped by O(2) and underwent a hydroxylation process.