Defined Transition Metal Complexes For Catalytic Oxidative C N Bond Formation

This thesis deals with the development of transition metal based processes for C-N bond formation. To this end, it describes three different areas of research, the activation of azo-compounds for a concomitant aryl-amination under Pd(0)/Pd(II) catalysis, secondly, the use of gold catalysts for an oxidative diamination of alkenes led to the development of Au(I)/Au(III) catalysis. The latter process gave rise to stoichiometric experiments on the feasibility of oxidation of gold(I) complexes. This work was equally extended to investigate pathways of reductive C-N bond formation from Pd(II)-amidato complexes under oxidative conditions.