During the past decade, the palladium-catalyzed amination of aryl halides has become a principal method to form the CÀN bonds of aromatic amines. [1][2][3][4] Although current catalysts are capable of coupling a wide range of amines with aryl halides, reactions with these catalysts have several limitations: the catalysts have short lifetimes in the reactions of primary amines with chloroarenes, even when conducted with the most recently developed, highly active catalysts containing basic, hindered alkylmonophosphines; [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] the reactions of primary alkyl amines with heteroaryl chloride reagents, which are important for the synthesis of biologically active molecules, have limited scope and require large amounts of catalyst; [7,8,11,13,[15][16][17][18][19][20] and the reactions of primary alkyl amines with chloroarenes that possess common protic functional groups have not been described.We now report on catalysts that can overcome these limitations. Our approach, which is based upon the selection of ligands that combine steric hindrance, strong electron donation, and tight chelation, leads to a catalyst that simultaneously possesses long lifetimes and displays high activity for reactions of primary nitrogen nucleophiles with chloropyridines. Many of the reactions occur with part-permillion quantities of catalyst and with turnover numbers that exceed those of previous catalysts by two or more orders of magnitude.To identify the factors that would improve catalyst lifetime over that of current catalysts, we studied the reactions of primary amines and pyridine with aryl palladium(ii) halide complexes and bisphosphine palladium(0) complexes bearing a basic, hindered alkyl monophosphine.[ [*] Q.