Dedicated to Professor Janusz Jurczak on the occasion of his 70th birthdayImmense progress in the field of transition-metal catalysis has been achieved over the past few decades, and the contributions of the ligands that are coordinated to the metals are now well understood.[1] Despite notable insights made into various reaction mechanisms, the prediction of the selectivity that a new catalyst will display is still beyond our abilities. This becomes a particularly difficult issue when the reaction pathways that lead to the isomeric products are nearly identical in energy, or worse, if the pathway to the desired isomer is higher in energy. For these challenging reactions, the trial-and-error approach is still dominant in the search for appropriate catalysts, and thus, combinatorial methods and high-throughput screening of ligands and catalysts have been developed.[2] Supramolecular ligands that form by selfassembly of smaller components appear suitable for this approach, as the modular synthesis efficiently generates wide libraries of ligands. [3] Enzyme mimicry represents an alternative route to selective catalysts. Inspired by the properties and working principles of enzymes, a great effort in catalyst development has been applied to the incorporation of cavitands that can bind guest molecules to an active site and promote reactions that are typically displayed by enzymes.[4] Remarkable examples of highly selective oxidation reactions catalyzed by metalloporphyrins, where hydrophobic interactions allow for substrate preorganization, have been developed by Breslow and co-workers.[5] However, simple hydrogen-bonding interactions between a substrate and the functional groups of a catalyst can also be used to greatly improve the selectivity of a reaction. This principle was elegantly demonstrated by Crabtree, Brudvig, and co-workers in a dimanganese catalyst for the highly selective functionalization of C À H bonds at sp 3 -hybridized carbon atoms. [6] Recently, our research group showed that even a single hydrogen bond between a catalyst and a substrate leads to improved activities in cyclopropanation reactions, [7] and excellent enantioselectivity in the hydrogenation of the Roche ester precursor.[8] A similar supramolecular substrate preorganization strategy has been reported by Breit and co-workers, who applied guanidinium-functionalized phosphines to the regioselective hydroformylation of vinylacetic acid and its analogues. [9] As supramolecular interactions can be arranged relatively easily, selective installation of functional groups can provide a powerful tool for the rational design of selective catalysts that operate predicatively. The approach requires a set of receptors that can address a wide range of functional groups. In addition, the impact would be larger if the selectivity could also be controlled by noncovalent interactions that are more remote from the catalytic center. Herein we report a bisphosphine ligand based on an anion receptor backbone. As predicted, the ligand can be used in a regioselec...