Transition-metal-catalyzed hydroamination of alkynes has emerged as a valuable method for C À N bond formation. [1] While significant progress in this area has been made, [2] several important limitations remain to be addressed. The majority of the previously developed catalytic processes employ highly nucleophilic primary amines that afford the corresponding imines as a result of tautomerization of the initially produced enamides. [3][4][5] We describe herein the first example of hydroamination of electron-rich alkynes by using a silver-based catalyst that enables syn-selective addition of secondary amides and carbamates to furnish the corresponding silyl ketene aminals with high efficiency and excellent diastereoselectivity. Our mechanistic studies demonstrate that the reaction proceeds by a fast and reversible silveralkyne complexation, followed by a rate-determining CÀN bond-forming step, which provides an important mechanistic platform for further development of d 10 catalysts for alkyne and alkene hydroamination.During our continuing investigation of the development of new catalytic CÀC and CÀX bond-forming reactions with electron-rich alkynes, [6] we discovered that treatment of siloxy alkyne 1 (TIPS = iPr 3 Si) with carbamate 2 in the presence of either a silver-or a gold-based catalyst resulted in the formation of silyl ketene aminal 3 (Table 1). Initial investigations revealed that the use of AgNTf 2 (Tf = CF 3 SO 2