The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of chiral propargyl acetates and allyl boronates delivers chiral 1,5-enynes with excellent levels of chirality transfer and applied across a broad range of substrates.1,5-Enynes are important and versatile synthetic intermediates. In addition to offering differentiated π-systems for selective functionalization, 1,5-enynes can be transformed into a diverse array of cyclic structures. 1 A current challenge to reaction methodology surrounding 1,5-enynes lies in the preparation of these structures in an enantiomerically enriched fashion. Synthesis of 1,5-enynes is commonly accomplished by allylation of propargylic electrophiles, employing either stoichiometric or catalytic Lewis acid activation. 2 While high levels of regiocontrol have been observed in these processes, they appear to proceed through an achiral carbocation intermediate and this feature precludes the transfer of chirality from enantiomerically-enriched starting materials to 1,5-enyne products (Scheme 1, eq. 1). 3,4 Transition metal catalysis could provide a solution to this limitation: palladium undergoes stereospecific anti S N 2´ oxidative addition with propargylic electrophiles. 5 This reaction delivers an η 1 -(allenyl)palladium complex (A, Scheme 1) whose configuration reflects that of the starting material. While (allenyl)palladium complexes can undergo isomerization to η 1 -(propargyl)palladium species (A→B), this transformation is also stereospecific. 5,6 With appropriately substituted substrates, both the propargyl (B) and the allenyl (A) palladium complexes are chiral and the fact that they are configurationally stable enables stereospecific cross-couplings. 7 However, the Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling of organometallic reagents and branched propargylic electrophiles generally favors the allene as opposed to the 1,5 enyne product. 7,8 This regioselectivity likely arises from steric effects; complex A is less hindered than complex B and this leads to allene products on reductive elimination. This reaction manifold renders traditional palladium catalysis ineffective for construction of chiral alkyne-containing compounds from chiral propargylic electrophiles.In contrast to the cross-coupling of alkyl, aryl and vinyl metal reagents, cross-couplings of allyl metal reagents may occur with allyl migration. To exploit this feature, our lab has studied cross-couplings of allyl metal reagents and allylic electrophiles and has found that these reactions appear to occur by an inner sphere 3,3'-reductive elimination. 9,10,11 In the presence of appropriately selected ligands (bidentate, small bite-angle diphosphines), allylallyl cross-couplings occur with excellent levels of regio-and stereocontrol. Along these * Corresponding Authormorken@bc.edu. Supporting Information. Procedures, characterization and spectral data. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.The authors declare no competing financial interest. lines, we considered that allyl-propargyl cross-couplings mi...