The problem of reliable impulsive synchronization for a class of nonlinear chaotic systems has been investigated in this paper. Firstly a reliable impulsive controller is designed by using the impulsive control theory. Then by the uniform asymptotic stability criteria of systems with impulsive effects, some sufficient conditions for reliable impulsive synchronization between the drive system and the response system are obtained. Numerical simulations are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.