“…The coupling of N -nucleophiles and isocyanides (C≡NR) is an important type of organic transformation yielding a great variety of chemical systems with newly formed C–N bonds [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. In particular, these reactions represent an excellent route toward acyclic diaminocarbenes—an attractive alternative to N -heterocyclic carbene- and phosphine-based metal complexes used as catalysts in a number of important chemical processes [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ], for example, Heck [ 12 , 13 ], Suzuki [ 12 , 14 ], Suzuki-Miyaura [ 13 , 15 , 16 , 17 ], and Sonogashira [ 13 , 18 , 19 ] cross-coupling reactions and some cyclizations/additions to substrates featuring C≡C and C=C bonds [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ].…”