In contrast to metal oxo chemistry, photochemical strategies to generate the corresponding reactive metal nitrenoids are much less developed. While organic azide ligands can represent viable photoprecursors to metal nitrenes, the poor donicity of organic azides as ligands coupled with the thermal instability of these ligands towards N2 loss results in a limited family of potential photoprecursors. Conceptually, haloamide ligands, which are X-type donors, could serve as