still elusive in most cases. Herein, we report a designing approach to enable selective nitrenoid transfer leading to sp2 spirocyclization and sp3 C-H insertion by cooperative two-point modulation of ligands in the CpXIr(III)(κ2-chelate) catalyst system. Computational analysis led us to interrogate structural motifs that can attribute to the desired mechanistic dichotomy. Multivariate linear regression