Ac hemobiocatalytic strategy for the highly stereoselective synthesis of nitrile-substituted cyclopropanes is reported. The present approach relies on an asymmetric olefin cyclopropanation reaction catalyzedb ya ne ngineered myoglobin in the presence of ex situ generated diazoacetonitrile within acompartmentalized reaction system. This method enabled the efficient transformation of abroad range of olefin substrates at ap reparative scale with up to 99.9 %d ea nd ee and up to 5600 turnovers.T he enzymatic product could be further elaborated to affordavariety of functionalized chiral cyclopropanes.T his work expands the range of synthetically valuable,a biotic transformations accessible through biocatalysis and paves the waytothe practical and safe exploitation of diazoacetonitrile in biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions.The catalytic asymmetric cyclopropanation of alkenes with diazo compounds constitutes aconvenient and direct strategy for the construction of optically active cyclopropanes, [1] which are key structural motifs in numerous natural products and pharmaceuticals. [2] Within this structural class,c yano-substituted cyclopropanes represent particularly attractive building blocks owing to the versatility of the cyano group toward its interconversion to avariety of functional groups. [3] Moreover, cyano-functionalized cyclopropanes have been incorporated into pharmacologically active molecules,including the potent cathepsin Ki nhibitor Odanacatib. [4] Notable contributions from the Davies,C harette,a nd Zhang groups have recently introduced chemocatalytic protocols for the asymmetric synthesis of cyano-substituted cyclopropanes starting from donor-acceptor or acceptor-acceptor diazo compounds. [5] In stark contrast, methods for the asymmetric synthesis of cyano-substituted cyclopropanes using the acceptor-only diazo reagent diazoacetonitrile (N 2 CHCN) have remained elusive.A sa ni solated effort in this direction, chiral Ruporphyrins were reported to catalyze the cyclopropanation of styrene derivatives in the presence of pre-formed diazoacetonitrile (1a), but only with moderate diastereoselectivity (20-50 % de)a nd enantioselectivity (41-71 % ee) (Scheme 1). [6] More recently,the Koenigs group has reported the iron-catalyzed cyclopropanation of vinylarenes in the presence of in situ generated [7] diazoacetonitrile. [8] While offering good yields and scalability,t his method provides only moderate diastereoselectivity (2:1 to 7:1d .r.)a nd no enantioselectivity in the cyclopropanation reaction (Scheme 1). [8] Motivated by the shortcomings of current methodologies for this transformation, we have pursued and report herein the development of ab iocatalytic strategy for the highly stereoselective synthesis of nitrile-substituted cyclopropanes by myoglobin-catalyzed olefin functionalization with diazoacetonitrile.T his method provides ar ather general, efficient, and scalable route to enantiopure cyclopropanes incorporating ac yano group,w hich can be readily elaborated to afford variously functionalized ...