AC u-catalyzed, highly b-selective borylation of ynamides with bis(pinacolato)diboron as the hydroboration reagent is reported, giving (E)-b-alkenylamide boronates in excellent regio-and stereoselectivity under mild reaction conditions, whichp rovides ac omplementary regioselectivity to the existing methods.Alkenylboronates are versatile synthetic intermediates and valuable reagents in organic synthesis because of their applicability toward ad iversea rray of chemical transformations, including transition-metal-catalyzedc ross-coupling reactions.[1] In this context, the hydroboration of alkynes, with or without promoters, has become one of the most straightforwarda nd efficient methods for producing these molecules. [2][3][4] It should be noted, however, that most of the previousr eports focus on the transformation of terminal acetylenes, [2][3][4] while only limited examples of the hydroboration of unsymmetrical internal alkynes have been demonstrated, [5] mainly duet ot he low reactivity or unsatisfactory regio-and stereoselectivity.A ss uch, the development of regiocontrolled hydroboration of internal alkynes still remainst ob eexplored.Besidesa cetylenic esters, [5g, h] ac lass of activated alkynes, severaln on-activated, unsymmetrical, internal acetylenes have recently emerged as effective substrates for the regioselective hydroboration reactiono wing to recentd evelopments in the Cu-catalyzed hydroboration process. For example, Ts uji and coworkers [6] developeda ne legant regiodivergenth ydroboration of 1-aryl-1-alkynes by the choice of organoboron reagents, pinacolborane (HBpin) or bis(pinacolato)diboron (B 2 pin 2 ).[7] Ar egiocontrolled hydroborationo fp ropargylic-functionalized internal alkynes was realized by Arrayµs,C arreteroa nd co-workers.[8] Meanwhile, the McQuade group reported ar egio-and stereoselective hydroboration of propargylic alcohol derivatives to yield a-o rb-borylated products by matching substrates and copper catalysts.[9] We have also accomplished aC u-catalyzed regioselective hydroboration of thioalkynesf or the divergent construction of (Z)-1-thio-and (Z)-2-thio-1-alkenyl boronates, in which the SR group plays ak ey role in determining the regioselectivity (Scheme1).[10a]On the other hand, the regiocontrolled hydroboration of ynamides constitutes as ignificant challenge because of the readilyp rotonolysiso fC ÀBb onds of the resulting alkenylamide boronates, [11a] until ar ecent report by Zhu and co-workers, [11b] in which they developed aC u-catalyzed a-selective borylationo fy namides with readily available B 2 pin 2 as the hydroborating reagent. In contrast, there is no general method for the regioselective b-borylation of ynamides.[12] Undoubtedly, the realizationo facomplementary regioselective method to the precedentm ethods is of considerable importance.H erein, we presento ur resultso nC u-catalyzed hydroboration of ynamides [13] with B 2 pin 2 for the effective synthesis of stereodefined (E)-b-alkenylamide boronates under mild reaction conditions. Compared ...