A variety of medicinally important multisubstituted tetrahydropyridines, 4-aryl piperidines, isoquinolines and fused pyridines were prepared in 1–3 step sequences via nucleophile-assisted Au(i)-catalyzed cyclizations of easily available azaenynes.
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