A wide variety of vinylic bromides such as (Z)-1-bromopropene, 1-bromo-2-methylpropene, 2-bromo-3-methyl-2-butene, (E)-ethyl 2-methyl-3-bromo-2-propenoate, 1-bromo-cyclohexene has been found to react with ethyl acrylate, ethyl 3-butenoate, allyl cyanide, (E)-ethyl crotonate, ethyl 4-pentenoate, methyl 10-undecenoate and methyl methacrylate in the presence of triethylamine and a palladium acetate-triorthotolylphosphine catalyst. In general, 2,4-dienoic acid derivatives were obtained in good yield and stereochemistry of the products was determined. Using this method, four, five and eleven carbon-carbon extension with ethyl 3-butenoate, ethyl 4-pentenoate and methyl 10-undecenoate was also possible.