That is clear to me now. What I don't understand yet is why there is no address in VOUT for a coinbase transaction. I am referring to the getblock rpcapi that is somehow not consistant with getrawtransaction (verbosity 2).
The same code is used for address decoding. Not all outputs correspond to addresses, so not all outputs will have an addresses field. This is especially true for old coinbase outputs because those made P2PK outputs and those don't have addresses.
The only place where one can see the output "sent" to is in VOUT in the address array correct? is there any other field containing this information?
Yes.