“…[1] For instance, the mitragynine pseudoindoxyl [1g-h] and brevianamide A [1i] exhibited strong opioid agonistic activity and insecticidal activity, respectively. Driven in part by their plentiful biological activities and intriguing architectures, numerous synthetic approaches toward these compounds, such as oxidative rearrangement of indole derivatives, [2] Smalley cyclization, [3] cycloisomerization of nitroalkynes, [4] Ugi reactions, [5] and others [6] have been successfully developed in the past several decades. However, catalytic asymmetric reactions have scarcely been reported likely due to the great challenge in the creation of the spirocyclic quaternary stereogenic carbon center, despite the fact that the resulting enantioenriched products might be helpful in drug discovery.…”