Catalytic asymmetric addition of nucleophiles to enals is a straightforward method towards enantioenriched allylic alcohols, which are important for the synthesis of natural and pharmaceutically active compounds. Reactive aryl lithiums, produced in situ from readily available and inexpensive aryl bromides and butyl lithium, were used to enantioselectively arylate a number of a-substituted cinnamaldehydes in the presence of tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA), AlCl 3 , and Ti(OiPr) 4 . This enabled enantioenriched linear trisubstituted allylic secondary alcohols in the catalysis of (S)-H 8 -BINOL-(TiOiPr) 2 complex. TMEDA coordinated the lithium salt generated in situ during transmetallation and effectively inhibited the unwanted background reaction catalyzed by the Lewis acidic lithium salt.Linear allylic secondary alcohols are key structural motifs in a considerable number of natural products and pharmaceutically active compounds [1] and an important class of versatile building blocks for a wide range of organic transformations. [2] Dynamic kinetic resolutions [3] and catalytic asymmetric allylic substitutions [4] are the most general among the numerous disclosed methods towards enantioenriched allylic alcohols to date.[5] The acyclic a-substituted terminal diaryl allylic secondary alcohols, one class of trisubstituted allylic alcohols, are rarely disclosed regarding their asymmetric synthesis although a number of allylic secondary alcohols have been prepared through a variety of methods.[6] The catalytic asymmetric 1,2-addition of organometallics to enals is a straightforward approach through carbon-carbon bond formation from readily available and inexpensive starting materials and, therefore, of considerable importance. [7] There are only one or two examples of these alcohols scattered in several reports on the catalytic asymmetric arylation of aldehydes.[8] The most reported methods in this topic mainly employ alkylzinc reagents and diphenylzinc to react with enals.[9] Aryl lithiums can be readily and conveniently prepared in situ from the corresponding aryl bromides and nBuLi and are used widely in organic and pharmaceutical syntheses. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no related report on the catalytic asymmetric arylation of the a-substituted cinnamaldehydes to prepare linear trisubstituted allylic terminal diaryl secondary alcohols by using aryl lithiums as reactive nucleophiles. In this Communication, we employed aryl lithiums generated in situ from aryl bromides as reactive starting nucleophiles, with AlCl 3 and tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) as appropriate additives, and (S)-H 8 -BINOL as the ideal chiral ligand to realize the catalytic highly enantioselective arylation of a-substituted cinnamaldehydes. The chiral linear trisubstituted allylic diaryl secondary alcohols were achieved in up to 94 % enantioselectivity and up to 99 % yield.We have used 2,2'-oxybis(N,N-dimethylethanamine) (BDMAEE) and AlCl 3 to modify the reactivity of aryl Grignard reagents and realize the highly enanti...