Allylamines are important targets in organic synthesis due to their utility as antifungal agents or their precursors. The nucleophilic addition of amines (morpholine, piperidine, pyrrolidin and benzylamine) to eta(3)-allylpaladium complexes, generated in situ from Pd(0) compounds, was carried out. Some properties of the catalytically active species were explained based on semiempirical (PM3) calculations.