An efficient metal-free approach has been devised towards the synthesis of azoles via CÀ H insertion protocol. Various isocyanides were examined as effective C1-synthons. The HFIP plays crucial role as hydrogen source and promoter of the reaction in order to reveal the maximum efficacies to accomplish the transformation in high yields of the products with excellent functional group tolerance. The control experiment affirmed 83% of deuterium incorporation, when the reaction was performed using HFIP-d 2. Isocyanides are witnessed as significant building blocks in synthetic organic chemistry [1] because of their ability for the reaction with various electrophiles, nucleophiles and radicals. [2] These molecules are also found as benign CO surrogates, ligands in metal complexes and as C1 sources in formal cycloaddition reactions towards the synthesis of valuable targets. [1f-h,2À 3] Furthermore, isocyanides have been extensively explored in engineering a broad spectrum of N-heterocycles. [1a] A large number of useful reports have been noticed on isocyanide insertion owing to their reactivities and efficiencies. In literature, it has been shown that the isocyanides have been utilized as CÀ NÀ C, [4-9] CÀ N [10-12] and C1-source [13-15] to construct various complex molecules (Scheme 1). Further, the reported methodologies are mainly concerned on using the transition metals such as Pd, [4,13,15] Cu, [5,11] Co [6] and Ni. [7,14] In recent years, the isocyanide insertion strategy under non-metal, Lewis-acid, base and photocatalyzed reaction conditions become familiar in the field of organic synthesis. [8,12] It is noteworthy that the isocyanide insertion chemistry under transition metal-free and non-transition metal-free conditions are very rare and remained asserting task for the synthetic chemists. [8-12] In particular, utilizing isocyanides as C1-source has always been explored under transition metal-catalysis. [13-15] In view of this, during our continuous efforts on identifying the transition metal-free catalyzed transformations, [16] we have [a