An atom-economic Pd 0 -catalyzed synthesis of a series of pinacol-type indolylboronates 3 from the corresponding bromoindole substrates 2 and pinacolborane (pinBH) as borylating agent was elaborated. The optimal catalyst system consisted of a 1 : 2 mixture of [Pd(OAc) 2 ] and the ortho-substituted biphenylphosphine ligand L-3 (Scheme 4, Table). Our synthetic protocol was applied to the fast, preparative-scale synthesis of 1-substituted indolylboronates 3a -h in the presence of different functional groups, and at a catalyst load of only 1 mol-% of Pd.