The carbonylative domino synthesis of enaminones and pyrazoles has been performed with the N—N bidentate palladium catalyst to achieve excellent selectivity. These results have confirmed that the carbonylative Sonogashira coupling of iodobenzenes with terminal alkynes is accompanied by the Michael addition of amines or phenylhydrazine in a one-pot method, which generates the desired products. This protocol demonstrates wide substrate tolerance, including hitherto unused aromatic amines, to yield the corresponding pure aromatic b-enaminones, which are subsequently converted into the 3-acylindole derivatives under mild conditions.