The couplingreaction of imidazoles and pyrazoles with bromoacetylenes has efficiently been carried out under ligand-free conditions in the presence of copper(II) oxide as the catalyst using potassium hydroxide in 1,4-dioxane at 80 ˚C. The method is a simpler access to N-alk-1-ynyl- and/or N-(2-bromovinyl)-substituted heteroarenes. couplingreaction - ligand-free conditions - copper(II) oxide - N-alkynylheteroarene