Despite recent advances of asymmetric synthesis, the preparation of enantiomerically pure (≥99% ee) compounds remains a challenge in modern organic chemistry. We report here a strategy for a highly enantioselective (≥99% ee) and catalytic synthesis of various γ-and more-remotely chiral alcohols from terminal alkenes via Zr-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination of alkenes (ZACA reaction)-Cu-or Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling. ZACA-in situ oxidation of tert-butyldimethylsilyl (TBS)-protected ω-alkene-1-ols produced both (R)-and (S)-α,ω-dioxyfunctional intermediates (3) in 80-88% ee, which were readily purified to the ≥99% ee level by lipase-catalyzed acetylation through exploitation of their high selectivity factors. These α,ω-dioxyfunctional intermediates serve as versatile synthons for the construction of various chiral compounds. Their subsequent Cu-catalyzed cross-coupling with various alkyl (primary, secondary, tertiary, cyclic) Grignard reagents and Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling with aryl and alkenyl halides proceeded smoothly with essentially complete retention of stereochemical configuration to produce a wide variety of γ-, δ-, and e-chiral 1-alkanols of ≥99% ee. The MαNP ester analysis has been applied to the determination of the enantiomeric purities of δ-and e-chiral primary alkanols, which sheds light on the relatively undeveloped area of determination of enantiomeric purity and/or absolute configuration of remotely chiral primary alcohols.A symmetric synthesis remains as a significant challenge to synthetic organic chemists as the demand for enantiomerically pure compounds continues to increase. Chirality plays a vital role in chemical, biological, pharmaceutical, and material sciences. The US Food and Drug Administration requires that all chiral bioactive molecules have to be as pure as possible, containing a single pure enantiomer, because chirality significantly influences drugs' biological and pharmacological properties. As a consequence, development of new methods for asymmetric synthesis of enantiomerically pure compounds (≥99% ee) continues to be increasingly important (1-5). We recently reported a highly selective and efficient method (6) for the preparation of 2-chirally substituted 1-alkanols via a sequence consisting of (i) Zr-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination of alkenes (ZACA reaction hereafter) (7-10)-in situ iodinolysis of allyl alcohol, (ii) enantiomeric purification by lipase-catalyzed acetylation (11, 12) of both (S)-and (R)-ICH 2 CH (R)CH 2 OH (1), the latter obtained as acetate, i.e., (R)-2, and (iii) Cu-or Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling (13, 14) (Scheme 1).As satisfactory as the procedure shown in Scheme 1 is, however, its synthetic scope is limited to the preparation of 2-chirally substituted 1-alkanols. In search for an alternative and more generally applicable procedure, we came up with a strategy shown in Scheme 2, which, in principle, should be applicable to the synthesis of γ-and more-remotely chiral alcohols of high enantiomeric purity. In contrast to Scheme 1, the alkylalane int...