Recently the interest for chiral olefin metathesis catalysts with respect to the synthesis of enantioenriched molecules, as well as enhanced product selectivities, has increased significantly.[1] For these kind of transformations, a range of molybdenum-catalysts containing one stereogen metal center have been very successful.[2] However, in comparison to these catalysts, ruthenium metathesis catalysts offer improved handling and stability. [3] A challenge with such catalysts is an efficient transfer of chirality from the N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) to the metal center without substitution of the chlorine ligands, which are important for the reactivity.[4] Recently, we introduced chiral ruthenium metathesis catalysts of type 1, [5] which, compared to the catalysts of Grubbs et al. (e.g. 2), have a different orientation of the stabilizing N-aryl groups (Scheme 1) which arises from the monosubstitution in the NHC-backbone. [6] The C3 substituent in the NHC twists the framework and hinders rotation of the N-aryl substituent, while at the same time the absence of the C4 substitution allows a planar orientation for the mesitylene moiety. The resulting highly active catalyst was used for asymmetric ring-opening crossmetathesis providing excellent results.[5]Herein, we report a new type of chiral NHC-ligand in which rotation around the chirality transferring N-aryl bond is no longer possible, and the corresponding ruthenium metathesis catalysts. We decided to use a 2-substituted tetrahydroquinoline as the source of chirality, which is easy accessible via quinaldic acid 4. After esterification of 4 and hydration to rac-5, a kinetic enzymatic resolution leads to the desired key structure ent-5 in an overall yield of 41 % (! 99 % ee) (Scheme 2). [7] Protection of amine ent-5 (route A), ester saponification and subsequent amide coupling and deprotection, afforded amide 6. A further reduction with BH 3 ·SMe 2 led to the formation of diamine 7 in good yields. During this reaction a partial racemization and fluctuating ee-values were detected Scheme 1. Chiral ruthenium metathesis (pre)catalysts.