Monodentate phosphite and diamidophosphite ligands have been developed based on Omethyl-BINOL. These chiral ligands are easy to prepare from readily accessible phosphorylating re-The new ligands have demonstrated excellent enantioselectivity in the palladium-catalysed allylic substitution reactions of (E)-1,3-diphenylallyl acetate with sodium p-toluenesulfinate (up to 99 % ee), pyrrolidine (up to 97 % ee), dipropylamine (up to 95 % ee) and dimethyl malonate (up to 99 % ee). In the palladium-catalysed deracemization of ethyl (E)-1,3-diphenylallyl carbonate, up to 96 % enantioselectivity has been achieved. The diamidophosphite ligands have exhibited very good enantioselectivity in the Rh-catalysed asymmetric hydrogenation of dimethyl itaconate (up to 90 % ee).