The coupling of acid chlorides 1 with terminal alkynes 2 using only one equivalent (!) of triethylamine under Sonogashira conditions followed by subsequent addition of primary or secondary amines 4 to the intermediate alkynones 3 represents a straightforward one-pot three component access to enaminones 5 under mild conditions and in excellent yields. Furthermore, 2,4-di-and 2,4,6-trisubstituted pyrimidines 7 can be synthesized in moderate to good yields according to a highly flexible coupling-addition-cyclocondensation sequence.Pyrimidines represent an important class of heterocycles 1 and their structural framework is not only a key constituent of nucleic bases, alkaloids, and numerous pharmacophores with antibacterial, 2 antimicrobial, antifungal, 3 antimycotic, 4 antiviral, and antitumor activity, 5 but also functions as a central unit in grid-forming ligands for supramolecular scaffolds. 6,7 As a consequence, many pyrimidine syntheses are known, the most efficient of them applying cyclocondensations of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds or their synthetic equivalents with amidines as a key step. 8,9 Among these approaches the reaction of alkynones and amidinium salts 10,11 represents an intriguing entry to pyrimidines, in particular, since alkynones can readily be formed in catalytic way by a Sonogashira coupling of an acid chloride with a terminal alkyne. 12,13 As part of our program directed to design novel multi-component reactions based on in situ activation of alkynes by Sonogashira coupling, 13,14 we have now focused on coupling-amination sequences as an entry to heterocycle sequences. Here, we wish to report three-component syntheses of enaminones and 2,4-and 2,4,6-substituted pyrimidines with a flexible substitution pattern.The most elegant and atom-economic way of transforming acid chlorides into alkynones is the cross coupling of terminal alkynes under the conditions of the Sonogashira coupling. In turn, the resulting ynones are highly reactive Michael acceptors that readily react with all kinds of nucleophiles. Just recently, we discovered that adding only one equivalent of triethylamine as the hydrochloric acid scavenging base proves to be most favorable, in particular, for the successful coupling of (TMS)acetylene. 13Probing ynones generated under cross-coupling conditions for the feasibility in a consecutive aminovinylation, 15 the addition of primary and secondary amines should give rise to b-enaminones in a one-pot fashion. Besides their enormous synthetic potential as well-established three-carbon building blocks for cyclocondensations in heterocyclic chemistry, 16 enaminones 17 in their own right are highly pharmacologically active and reveal a pronounced anticonvulsant 18 and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory activity. 19 Therefore, in the sense of a consecutive three-component one-pot reaction, after reacting various acid chlorides 1 with terminal alkynes 2 under modified Sonogashira conditions for 1 hour at room temperature to furnish the expected alkynones 3, and subsequently adding methanolic solutio...