Carbon-carbon multiple bonds (alkenes, alkynes and allenes) are versatile functionalities for transition metal-catalysed carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom coupling reactions. Despite their increasing synthetic utility with recent improvements in regio- and stereoselectivity, substantial issues remain regarding selectivity among the types of C-C multiple bonds due to their relative reactivities towards a catalyst when they coexist in a reaction. Here, we present a Pd-catalysed hydroamination1 that is highly selective for either the allene or alkyne of an aminoallenyne. We determined the relative reactivity of alkene, alkyne, allene, and amine towards the Pd catalyst using time-dependent fluorescence quenching to explain the selectivity and the reaction mechanism. Additionally, we developed a tandem reaction combining the selective hydroamination of either alkyne or allene with C-C and C-O couplings.
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