Facile palladium-catalyzed cyclizations of arylaminoquinones giving biologically important carbazoloquinones in high yields have been performed with oxygen as the single oxidant. By a slight modification of the catalyst, diphenylamine, diphenyl ether, and related compounds can be cyclized. The system could also be used in intermolecular couplings between naphthoquinones and benzene or naphthalene.