The formation of CÀN bonds is an important transformation in organic synthesis, as the amine functionality is found in numerous natural products and plays a key role in many biologically active compounds [1]. Standard catalytic methods to produce CÀN bonds involve functional group manipulations, such as reductive amination of carbonyl compounds [2], addition of nucleophiles to imines [3], hydrogenation of enamides [4][5][6][7][8], hydroamination of olefins [9] or a CÀN coupling reaction [10,11]. Recently, the direct and selective introduction of a nitrogen atom into a CÀH bond via a metal nitrene intermediate has appeared as an attractive alternative approach for the formation of CÀN bonds [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24].Copper-catalyzed decomposition of benzenesulfonyl azide in the presence of cyclohexene was the first reported evidence of a metal-catalyzed nitrene insertion reaction [25]. This seminal discovery was then followed by the pioneering work of Breslow and Gellman who introduced the use of iminoiodinanes as metal nitrene precursors as well as rhodium dimer complexes as catalysts [26,27]. They showed the formation of the corresponding benzosultam in 86% yield in the presence of rhodium (II) acetate dimer (Rh 2 (OAc) 4 ) via an intramolecular metal nitrene CÀH bond insertion reaction (Eq. (5.1)). 86% Rh 2 (OAc) 4 (5 mol%) MeCN, rt S N I Ph O O S NH O O ð5:1ÞM€ uller then intensively studied rhodium dimer complexes as catalysts for the intermolecular amination of alkanes using iminoiodinanes, typically PhI¼NTs and PhI¼NNs [28][29][30]. Good yields were obtained for amination of benzylic, allylic and tertiary CÀH bonds, which are the most reactive CÀH bonds towards metal nitrenes. For instance the amination of indane provided the corresponding benzylic amine in Catalyzed Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation. Edited