“…With the chiral palladium complex as the catalyst, Legros, Fiaud, and co-workers and Hirano, Murai, and co-workers independently reported the seminal asymmetric benzylation of non-prochiral nucleophiles with secondary benzyl electrophiles, wherein the generation of point chirality was located at the benzylic position. To change the position of asymmetric induction from electrophiles to nucleophiles, the Trost group and Zhang group chose primary benzylic carbonates and phosphates as the electrophiles to finish the catalytic asymmetric benzylation of prochiral 3-aryl oxindole, azlactone, and racemic phosphine compounds, respectively. More recently, a similar process of chiral induction was also documented by Guo and co-workers, which afforded a series of enantioenriched indole-terpenoid frameworks in excellent yields .…”