Additions of allylic boron reagents to aldehydes have evolved into one of the most popular methods for stereoselective CÀC bond formation.[1] Compared to dialkyl allylic boranes, allylic boronic esters are often more advantageous as a class of reagents because of their superior stability. Three strategies have been developed for the control of enantiofacial selectivity in additions of allylic boronates to achiral aldehydes: 1) the use of a chiral diol or a diamine auxiliary as the two nonallylic substituents on the boron center; [2] 2) the use of chiral Lewis and Brønsted acid catalysis with achiral boronates; [3] and 3) the use of optically pure a-substituted reagents (so-called a-chiral allylboronates).[4] The preparation of chiral a-substituted allylboronates 1 and their additions to aldehydes were pioneered by Hoffmann and co-workers. [4] Regrettably, these reagents have remained underused in part because of their stepwise preparation based on a Matteson asymmetric homologation of chiral alkenylboronates. [5,6] The reagent-controlled additions of 1 to aldehydes proceed with near-complete transfer of chirality to give two diastereomeric products 4 and 5 (Scheme 1). These Z and E allylic alcohols are epimeric, and their ratio is highly dependent on the nature of the a substituent R 1 and the nature of the boronic ester.[4] The ratio of 4 and 5 can be explained in terms of steric and dipolar effects on the two competing transition structures 2 and 3. With a nonpolar alkyl substituent R 1 , steric interactions play a dominant role. The chairlike transition structure 2 can be destabilized by a steric interaction between a large boronic ester and the pseudoequatorial a substituent R 1 . On the other hand, the transition structure 3 features unfavorable allylic interactions that result from the pseudoaxial position of the R 1 substituent. The common use of a hindered ester, such as pinacolate, aggravates the interactions between R 1 and the methyl groups of the pinacol moiety in 2. Thus, in this case transition structure 3 is more probable and leads to mixtures of products 4 and 5 in modest selectivities. [7] In our view, two major issues need to be resolved to render chiral a-substituted allylboronates attractive reagents: a simple catalytic enantioselective method for their preparation and full diastereocontrol of the ratio 4/5 by a suitable optimization of reagent (R 1 , (OR) 2 ) and reaction conditions. Here, we report an approach that successfully addresses these two issues and provides a simple and efficient method for enantioselective aldehyde allylation.Prompted by the recent report of Alexakis and coworkers [8a] on the copper-catalyzed S N 2' allylic alkylation of cinnamyl chloride using chiral phosphoramidite ligands (L*), [8,9] we envisioned that 3-halopropenylboronates 6 [10] could be suitable substrates in this reaction [Eq. (1)]. With these substrates, however, the noncatalyzed (that is, background) allylic Matteson homologation may pose a serious threat to the enantioselectivity of this process.[1...