Département de chimie moléculaire

The significant progress made in the area of transition metal-catalyzed nitrene transfers into C-H or C=C bonds mediated by iodine(III) oxidants has translated into many elegant synthetic applications. This feature article summarizes the main total syntheses that took advantage of such reactions thereby highglighting that catalytic C(sp3)-H amination and alkene aziridination reactions have carved out their place in the organic chemist's toolbox.