A highly efficient regiodivergent method for the synthesis of N-fused heterocycles via transitionmetal-catalyzed rearrangement of 3-iminocyclopropenes has been developed.Transition-metal-catalyzed chemistry of cyclopropenes 1 benefits from their enormous ring strain. 2 The highly reactive double bond enjoys a variety of addition 3 and cycloaddition 4 reactions, 5 while rearrangements allow for construction of various carbo-6 and heterocycles. 6c-g,7 Thus, there are several reports on the metal-catalyzed rearrangements of 3-acylcyclopropenes into furans (eq 1). 6c-g,7 However, to the best of our knowledge, an analogous metal-catalyzed construction of N-containing heterocycles has no precedents. 8 Herein, we wish to report the first example of a regiodivergent Cu-and Rh-catalyzed rearrangement of 3-iminocyclopropenes into N-fused pyrroles, heterocyclic scaffolds endowed with a wide array of important biological properties (eq 2). 9( It deserves mentioning that, until recently, there were no convenient approaches toward C-3 imino-substituted cyclopropenes, potentially useful building blocks for organic chemistry. 1 Recently, we found 10 that 7-halo-substituted N-fused triazoles 1 could be used as surrogates for α-imino diazocompounds 11 in the Rh(II)-catalyzed chemoselective reaction with terminal alkynes to produce indolizines 2 or 3-(2-pyridyl)cyclopropenes 3, depending upon catalyst source (eq 3). 10 The presence of the halogen substituent in 1 was crucial, as no reaction occurred with triazoles possessing H or alkyl groups at C-7. 10 Although the direct Rh(II) perfluorobutyrate-catalyzed transannulation of triazoles provided a rapid and convenient approach toward indolizines, 10 it was not without limitations. Thus, only triazoles that possessed strong electron-withdrawing group at C-3 (R 2 = CO 2 R) were efficient in this transannulation reaction. We hypothesized that, potentially, the rearrangement of 3-(2-pyridyl)cyclopropenes 3 could provide alternative routes to indolizines 2 as shown in eq 2.To this end, we tested the generality of the Rh 2 (S-DOSP) 2 -catalyzed cyclopropenation of triazoles with alkynes. To our delight, we found that a variety of pyridyl-containing cyclopropenes can easily be synthesized in good yields via this method (Table 1). 12 Thus, triazoles 1a-d possessing both electron-rich and electron-deficient aryl substituents at C-3 reacted smoothly with various alkyl-, aryl-, and alkenyl-containing alkynes to afford corresponding cyclopropenes 3 chemoselectively (Table 1). Cyclopropenation of 3-carbomethoxytriazole 1e proceeded uneventfully, producing corresponding cyclopropenes 3 in good to excellent yields (entries 9-12, 14).Naturally, having in hand this convenient method for the synthesis of 3-iminocyclopropenes, we evaluated our hypothesis on the cyclopropene into N-fused pyrrole transformation (eq 2).To this end, we tested rearrangement of cyclopropene 3a into indolizines 2a and 4a in the presence of a series of transition-metal catalysts ( Table 2). The employment of Pd(II)...