The prevalence of a-chiral aldehydes as pivotal intermediates in synthesis and the challenge posed by their stereocontrolled preparation have attracted increased interest from the synthetic organic community in the last decades. [1] Amongst successful examples of asymmetric catalytic reactions leading to a-chiral aldehydes, the metal-catalyzed hydroformylation of olefins [2,3] and a variety of aminocatalytic additions to aldehydes relying either on enamine or singly occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) activations have become the most dominant and inspiring strategies. [4][5][6] Interestingly, despite major advances in these areas, very few catalytic asymmetric approaches enable the preparation of a-chiral aldehydes possessing a quaternary stereogenic center with high efficiency and, more importantly, broad diversity. [7] As part of our ongoing research program aimed at the stereoselective preparation of chiral aldehydes, we became interested in identifying strategies that would complement the catalytic asymmetric isomerization of allylic alcohols [8] and the catalytic asymmetric hydroboration of terminal olefins [9] developed in our laboratory. The Pd-catalyzed direct a-arylation of aldehydes pioneered by Muratake and coworkers appeared particularly attractive to us because of the ready access to quaternary stereogenic centers it offers. [10][11][12][13] As a testimony to the hurdles inherent in the development of asymmetric variants of CÀC bond-forming reactions, to date there is only one example of a Pd-catalyzed enantioselective intramolecular asymmetric a-arylation of aldehydes. The observation made by Buchwald and co-workers [14] that heterotopic (P,N) ligands were superior to homotopic diphosphine ligands for this transformation [15] guided our ligand design. Therefore, we initiated efforts towards the develop-ment of a new family of C 1 -symmetric chiral (P,N) ligands elaborated around the well-established binepine scaffold 1. [16] Herein, we report the successful application of this new class of highly modular chiral ligands in the context of the Pdcatalyzed intramolecular asymmetric a-arylation of a-branched aldehydes.