An unprecedented asymmetrica llenylic alkylation of readily available imine esters, whichw as enabled by as ynergistic Cu/Pd catalysis, has been developed. This dual catalytic system possesses good substrate compatibility,d elivering ad iversea rray of nonproteinogenic a-allenylic a-mono-or a,a-disubstituted a-aminoa cids (a-AAs) with high yields and generally excellent enantioselectivities.F urthermore, the scalability and practicability of the current synthetic protocol were proven by performing gram-scale reactions and by the first catalytic asymmetric synthesis of naturallyo ccurring (S)-g-allenic a-amino acid, respectively.Opticallya ctive nonproteinogenic a-monosubstituted or a,adisubstituted a-amino acids (a-AAs) are privileged constituents of numerousb iologically active natural compounds and pharmaceutical ingredients. [1] For example, these versatile structure motifs have been frequently found in unique enzyme inhibitors [2] and pharmacologically importantn onnatural peptides and proteinsw ith enhanced functionalities. [3] Alternatively, allene-containing compounds have also attracted considerable attention due to their important chemical and biologicalp roperties in synthetic transformations [4] and drug molecules [5] as well as naturalp roducts. [4c, 5a, 6] In view of these unique features of both nonproteinogenic a-AAs and allene units,d eveloping an efficient approach to access nonproteinogenic a-A As bearing an allenic moiety in ah ighly enantioselectivem anner is of great significancea nd also very desirable.With operationally simplicity and synthetically utility,t he palladium-catalyzed enantioselective allenylic alkylation of racemic 2,3-allenol derivatives involving chiral vinyl-p-allylpalladium intermediate [7] has emerged as one of the commonly used tools to synthesize enantiomerically enriched allenes or allenylic substitution products. Among these elegant methodologies using chiral palladium h 3 -butadienyl species as electrophiles, most of the reported examples focusedo nt he construction of allenes with axial chirality, [8] and the established protocols capable of achieving allene derivatives containingc entral chirality [8g, 9] are stillraretod ate (Scheme 1a). Furthermore, the enantiocontrol of nucleophiles has not been touched yet in all of the known cases,p robably due to the synthetic challenges in the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylation reaction, that is, the long distance between the catalytic site of the chiral palladium complexa nd the reaction site in nucleophile reagents. [10] Recently,w eand others have developedanew seto fd ual catalytic systemsf or efficient asymmetrica llylic alkylation reactions [10b, 11,12] of readily available iminee sters, in which ac hiral Cu I complex anda chiral [13] or chiral Pd 0 complex [14] has been combined and successfully used as the synergisticc atalysts, leading to various a-quaternary nonproteinogenic a-AAs [15] Scheme1.Catalytic asymmetric allenylic alkylation of non-prochiral nucleophiles withc hiral Pd complex (previous wor...