Editing Nitrene (section)

==Isolated Nitrenes==
Although highly reactive, some nitrenes could be isolated and characterized recently.

In 2019, a triplet nitrene was isolated by Betley and Lancaster, stabilized by coordination to a copper center in a bulky ligand.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Carsch, K. M. |author2=DiMucci, I. M. |author3=Iovan, D. A. |author4=Li, A. |author5=Zheng, S.-L. |author6=Titus, C. J. |author7=Lee, S. J. |author8=Irwin, K. D. |author9=Nordlund, D. |author10=Lancaster, K. M. |author11=Betley, T. A. |title=Synthesis of a Copper-Supported Triplet Nitrene Complex Pertinent to Copper-Catalyzed Amination |journal=Science |date=2019 |volume=365 |issue=6458 |pages=1138–1143 |doi=10.1126/science.aax4423 |pmid=31515388 |pmc=7256962 |bibcode=2019Sci...365.1138C }}</ref> Later on, Schneider and coworkers characterized Pd and Pt triplet metallonitrenes, where the organic residue is replaced by a metal.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sun |first=Jian |last2=Abbenseth |first2=Josh |last3=Verplancke |first3=Hendrik |last4=Diefenbach |first4=Martin |last5=de Bruin |first5=Bas |last6=Hunger |first6=David |last7=Würtele |first7=Christian |last8=van Slageren |first8=Joris |last9=Holthausen |first9=Max C. |last10=Schneider |first10=Sven |date=November 2020 |title=A platinum(ii) metallonitrene with a triplet ground state |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-020-0522-4 |journal=Nature Chemistry |language=en |volume=12 |issue=11 |pages=1054–1059 |doi=10.1038/s41557-020-0522-4 |issn=1755-4349|hdl=11245.1/1d9bd22a-92be-40ac-9b3a-e6dc7df2afc9 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schmidt-Räntsch |first=Till |last2=Verplancke |first2=Hendrik |last3=Lienert |first3=Jonas N. |last4=Demeshko |first4=Serhiy |last5=Otte |first5=Matthias |last6=Van Trieste III |first6=Gerard P. |last7=Reid |first7=Kaleb A. |last8=Reibenspies |first8=Joseph H. |last9=Powers |first9=David C. |last10=Holthausen |first10=Max C. |last11=Schneider |first11=Sven |date=2022 |title=Nitrogen Atom Transfer Catalysis by Metallonitrene C−H Insertion: Photocatalytic Amidation of Aldehydes |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202115626 |journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition |language=en |volume=61 |issue=9 |pages=e202115626 |doi=10.1002/anie.202115626 |issn=1521-3773 |pmc=9305406 |pmid=34905281}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schmidt-Räntsch |first=Till |last2=Verplancke |first2=Hendrik |last3=Kehl |first3=Annemarie |last4=Sun |first4=Jian |last5=Bennati |first5=Marina |last6=Holthausen |first6=Max C. |last7=Schneider |first7=Sven |date=2024-09-23 |title=C═C Dissociative Imination of Styrenes by a Photogenerated Metallonitrene |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.4c00571 |journal=JACS Au |volume=4 |issue=9 |pages=3421–3426 |doi=10.1021/jacsau.4c00571 |pmc=11423323 |pmid=39328761}}</ref> In 2024, the groups of Beckmann, Ye and Tan reported the isolation and characterization of organic triplet nitrenes, which are protected from chemical reactivity by an extremely bulky ligand.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Janssen |first=Marvin |last2=Frederichs |first2=Thomas |last3=Olaru |first3=Marian |last4=Lork |first4=Enno |last5=Hupf |first5=Emanuel |last6=Beckmann |first6=Jens |date=2024-07-19 |title=Synthesis of a stable crystalline nitrene |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4963 |journal=Science |volume=385 |issue=6706 |pages=318–321 |doi=10.1126/science.adp4963}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wang |first=Dongmin |last2=Chen |first2=Wang |last3=Chen |first3=Haonan |last4=Chen |first4=Yizhen |last5=Ye |first5=Shengfa |last6=Tan |first6=Gengwen |date=2024-11-19 |title=Isolation and characterization of a triplet nitrene |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-024-01669-9 |journal=Nature Chemistry |language=en |pages=1–6 |doi=10.1038/s41557-024-01669-9 |issn=1755-4349}}</ref>