A one-pot tandem palladium(II)-catalyzed aza-Claisen rearrangement and ring closing metathesis process has been developed for the efficientsynthesis of cyclic allylic trichloroacetamides. The use of chiral Pd(II) catalysts such as (
S)-COP-Cl during the rearrangement stage resultsin the preparation of these compounds in excellent yields and in high enantiomeric excess.