Tunable, Chemo- and Site-Selective Nitrene Transfer Reactions through the Rational Design of Silver(I) Catalysts

ConspectusCarbon–nitrogen (C–N) bonds are ubiquitous in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, diverse bioactive natural products, and ligands for transition metal catalysts. An effective strategy for introducing a new C–N bond into a molecule is through transition metal-catalyzed nitrene transfer chemistry. In these reactions, a metal–supported nitrene can either add across a C═C bond to form an aziridine or insert into a C–H bond to furnish the...