C-H insertion. By employing chiral diphenylethylene diamine (dpen) as ligands bearing electron-withdrawing arylsulfonyl substituents, the reactions occur with remarkable chemo- and enantioselectivities; the competing Curtius-type rearrangement was largely suppressed. Enantioselective nitreneinsertion to allylic/propargylic C-H bonds was also achieved with remarkable tolerance to the C═C and C≡C bonds
A new class of chiralruthenium catalysts is introduced in which ruthenium is cyclometalated by two 7-methyl-1,7-phenanthrolinium heterocycles, resulting in chelating pyridylidene remote N-heterocycliccarbene ligands (rNHCs). The overall chirality results from a stereogenic metal center featuring either a Λ or Δ absolute configuration. This work features the importance of the relative metal-centered