Authors have developed an unprecedented rhodium-catalyzed chemo-, regio-, and stereoselective three-component cross-addn. of a silylacetylene, alkynyl ester, and electron-deficient alkene, thereby leading to substituted 1,3-dienes. In addn., the analogous and unprecedented three-component cross-addn. involving isocyanates in place of electron-deficient alkenes has also been developed. Future work will focus on further exploitation of the catalytic three-component cross-addn. reactions by using the cationic rhodium(I) complexes as catalysts. [on SciFinder(R)]