A novel type of highly efficient chiral sulfinamide bisphosphine catalysts (Wei-Phos) were developed. These could be easily prepared from commercially available starting materials. Wei-Phos has shown good performance in the very challenging intermolecular cross-Rauhut-Currier reactions of vinyl ketones and 3-acyl acrylates or 2-ene-1,4-diones, leading to the R-C products in high yields with up to 99% ee under 2.5-5 mol% catalyst loading. The highly regio- and enantio-selective cross-Rauhut-Currier reactions of 2-ene-1,4-diones and vinyl ketone have yet reported so far.

The development of electron-demand disfavored [4 + 2] cycloaddition of two electron-deficient reacting partners poses a considerable challenge. An enantioselective aza-[4 + 2] cycloaddition of electron-deficient N-sulfonyl-1-aza-1,3-dienes is possible with vinyl ketones via phosphine catalysis, which provides facile access to a wide range of enantioenriched trifluoromethylated tetrahydropyridines in up to 97% yield with 97% ee and >20:1 dr. The mechanistic study indicated that this cycloaddition proceeds via a tandem intermolecular aza-Rauhut-Currier/intramolecular aza-Michael addition reaction.

The enantioselective intermolecular cross Rauhut-Currier reaction of acrolein with active olefins has been a long-standing challenge because of the competitive MBH reaction and polymerization. Herein a highly enantioselective intermolecular cross Rauhut-Currier reaction of acrolein with 3-acyl acrylates and 2-ene-1,4-diones, which is enabled by newly designed Peng-Phos catalysts. This method is scalable and highly enantioselective (up to 96% ee). Several transformations of the R-C products are carried out to showcase the synthetic utility.

Herein we present a phoshine-catalyzed highly regio-, diastereo- and enantioselective [3 + 2] cycloaddition of γ-substituted allenoates with β-perfluoroalkyl enones, delivering a wide range of densely functionalized perfluoroalkylated cyclopentenes with three contiguous chiral stereocenters.

The highly enantioselective N‐acylaminophosphine‐catalyzed challenging asymmetric intermolecular cross Rauhut–Currier reaction of vinyl ketones with β‐perfluoroalkyl enones is described, which provides a facile access to chiral multifunctional compounds bearing a perfluoroalkyl‐substituted stereocenter in good yields and ees.magnified image