Dedicated to the Catalysis Society of Japan on the occasion of the 50th anniversary Heterogeneous catalytic systems for asymmetric reactions are fascinating because of their potential in synthetic applications.[1] However, because of the high substrate specificity of these catalysts, the complexity of the task at hand, and the difficulties in understanding and designing the catalytic reactions, there have been just three established systems reported.[1a] One system identified for asymmetric hydrogenation is the cinchona-modified Pt/Al 2 O 3 for asymmetric hydrogenation of a-keto esters, which was developed by Orito et al. in 1979. [2] Baiker et al. successfully used this catalyst in the asymmetric hydrogenation of activated aromatic ketones.[3] However, when considering the asymmetric hydrogenation of simple aromatic ketones and derivatives, which are among the most fundamental subjects in modern synthetic chemistry, few successful heterogeneous catalytic examples are reported.Chiral modifiers are the origin of the enantioselectivity in most heterogeneous catalytic reactions, and natural cinchona alkaloids and their derivatives have been widely used as versatile chiral catalysts, ligands, column packing, and chiral shift reagents.[4] Two of the three most well-known heterogeneous catalytic systems in asymmetric reactions are based on natural cinchona alkaloids and their derivatives as the chiral modifiers. [2,5] Stabilizers, which are widely used in preparing nanometal catalysts, including amines, [6] phosphines, [7] and thiols, [8] have been gradually introduced into supported catalysts in recent years. We previously reported polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and cinchona-stabilized Rh in the asymmetric hydrogenation of a-keto esters, in which moderate to good enantioselectivities were obtained.[9] Meanwhile, little attention has been paid to the preparation of supported metal catalysts stabilized by phosphines. Reported herein is a Ph 3 Pstabilized Ir/SiO 2 catalyst system modified by a chiral diamine, derived from cinchona alkaloids, for the asymmetric hydrogenation of simple aromatic ketones and their derivatives; the results are compared to known homogeneous catalysts.[10] To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of the asymmetric hydrogenation of simple aromatic ketones with a greater than 95 % ee by using a new heterogeneous catalyst. This report is also the first successful example of the asymmetric hydrogenation of simple aromatic ketones employing Ir and H 2 .The high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) picture ( Figure 1 in the Supporting Information) of 3 %Ir/SiO 2 /2tpp (tpp = triphenylphosphine) showed that Ir is highly dispersed on the SiO 2 as an amorphous agglomerate. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis indicated that the metal component is present in a reduced state (Ir 4f 7/2 core level centered at 61.6 eV) compared to Ir 0 (Ir 4f 7/2 core level centered at 60.8 eV), [11] and the binding energy (103.5 eV) of Si 2p is similar to the expected value (103.4 ...