Metal-catalyzed aminocarbonylation is as tandard approach for installing amide functionality in chemical synthesis.D espite broad application of this transformation using aryl or vinyl electrophiles,t here are few examples involving unactivated aliphatic substrates.F urthermore,t here are no stereocontrolled aminocarbonylations of alkyl electrophiles known. Herein, we report astereospecific aminocarbonylation of unactivated alkylt osylates for the synthesis of enantioenriched amides.T his cobalt-catalyzed transformation uses ar emarkably broad range of amines and proceeds with excellent stereospecificity and chemoselectivity. Table 3: Stereospecific, catalytic aminocarbonylation of (S)-1 with 18 8 and 28 8 amines and ammonium carbamate. [a] [a] Yields of isolated product are shown. Enantiospecificity (es) = (ee product /ee substrate ) 100 %, determined by chiral HPLC analysis.Scheme 1. Plausiblec atalyticc ycle for the catalytic stereospecific aminocarbonylation.