2-Diazabuta-1,3-dienes represent versatile building blocks in organic synthesis because they offer easy access to a wide variety of heterocyclic compounds by 1,4-conjugate addition and subsequent cyclization reactions. [1] Moreover, Michael reaction adducts of the 1,2-diazabuta-1,3-diene system may act as nitrogen ligands [2] for transition metal catalysts, which leads to unusual reaction pathways. [3] In common with other Michael additions, 1,2-diazabuta-1,3dienes undergo divergent copper-promoted annulation reactions to form functionalized imidazolines/imidazoles under regiocontrol, whereas the base-promoted cyclization provides both 1-substituted and 1-unsubstituted 4-aminocarbonyl-1Hpyrazol-5(2H)-ones. [4] A variety of metal-catalyzed reactions of enynes, which involve a broad range of early and late transition metals, are of interest in the synthesis of functionalized carbo/heterocycles. [5] The classes of reaction that involve the metalcatalyzed functionalization of enynes include cycloisomerization, [6] reductive cyclization, [7] bismetallative cyclization, [8] carbonylative cyclizations, [9] and dimerization/cyclization. [10] One-pot domino reactions of enynes provide a valuable procedure for easy access to five-and six-membered heterocycles containing a 1,3-diene structure, which can lead to bicyclic compounds through in situ Diels ± Alder reactions. [11] Domino reactions are emerging as powerful strategies in modern synthetic organic chemistry, and the discovery of new reaction sequences able to produce functional compounds constitutes a challenge both from the academic and industrial points of view. [12] The a-propargylaminohydrazone adducts 1 a ± c (Scheme 1, Table 1), which contain a 1,4-diazo-1,6-azenyne system, turned out to be useful substrates for further metal-catalyzed processes. In this context, we investigated the palladiumcatalyzed arylation and vinylation reactions of a-propargyl-aminohydrazones. Here we report a new, efficient synthetic methodology for the preparation of (Z)-6-arylidene/vinylidene-6a-methyl-1,5,6a-tetrahydro-2H-pyrrolo[3,2-c]pyrazol-3-ones (for example, 3a ± h) through remarkable sequential base-promoted annulation/palladium-catalyzed, domino 1,5enyne arylation and vinylation reactions.The treatment of 1 a ± c with anhydrous piperidine in the presence of aryl iodide/triflate derivatives 2 a ± h and Pd(OAc) 2 /DPPF (Ac acetyl; DPPF 1,1'-bis(diphenylphosphanyl)ferrocene) catalytic system gave 3 a ± h in good yields (Scheme 1, Table 1). The structure of compounds 3 was confirmed by one-( 1 H, 13 C) and two-dimensional (COSY, HETCOR, NOESY) NMR spectral analysis, and by mass spectroscopy. NOESY experiments clearly demonstrate that the geometry of the exocyclic double bond is Z for all compounds 3 a ± h. Moreover, 1 H and 13 C NMR signals arising from the vinyl substituted pyrazolones 3 e ± h are split because of the presence of multiple isomers. Scheme 1. Reagents and conditions: 1) Pd(OAc) 2 , DPPF, piperidine, RT, 24 h. Spectroscopic data of new compounds can be found in...