Elimination and racemization limit the synthesis of sterically hindered ethers, [1] such as a-chiral ethers, by the Willamson synthesis. Enantioselective transition-metal-catalyzed allylic substitution [2][3][4][5][6] could be used to prepare these materials from achiral or racemic allylic electrophiles, but intermolecular enantioselective reactions of allylic acetates or carbonates with alkoxides are limited. Enantioselective reactions of phenoxides are well documented, [7][8][9] but no metal catalyzes intermolecular enantioselective allylations of alkoxides with broad scope. [10][11][12][13] Lee and Kim [14] as well as Evans and Leahy [15] demonstrated that zinc and copper alkoxides were more reactive for allylic substitution with achiral palladium and rhodium catalysts than alkali metal alkoxides. The palladium-catalyzed reactions generated achiral ethers, but the rhodium-catalyzed reactions formed branched chiral ethers. Reactions of primary alkoxides with optically active allylic acetates occurred with predominant retention of configuration, but reactions of secondary and tertiary alkoxides were conducted with racemic allylic electrophiles. Because the products from reactions of primary alkoxides can be formed by alkylation of an optically active alcohol, but products from reactions of secondary alkoxides cannot, a catalyst that forms optically active products from hindered alkoxides and allylic carbonates is synthetically valuable. We report herein enantioselective reactions of primary, secondary, and tertiary alkoxides with achiral allylic carbonates to form branched chiral allylic ethers in high yields and with high stereoselectivity in the presence of an iridium catalyst containing a phosphoramidite ligand (Scheme 1). [16][17][18][19][20][21][22] To optimize the conditions for the allylation of aliphatic alkoxides with iridium-phosphoramidite catalysts, we studied the reactions of cinnamyl carbonate with benzyloxides (Table 1). Careful selection of carbonate, alkoxide counterion, and nitrogen substituents in the ligand was essential for high yields. Cinnamyl carbonates with small alkyl groups underwent transesterification in competition with etherification, but tert-butyl cinnamyl carbonate (1 a) provided the