Much of the recent interest in main group metallocenes has arisen from applications as materials precursors for chemical vapor deposition and as activators or catalysts in olefin polymerization. Nonetheless, structure and bonding considerations continue to motivate researchers, as less is known about these main group systems than the transition metal analogues. In this regard, recent studies by Cowley and coworkers, who have described the first examples of decamethylgallocenium [1] and decamethylborocenium cations, [2] and by Schnˆckel et al, who have reported the decamethylalumocenium cation, [3] have begun to redress the balance. Only the Al species displays the symmetric bis-h 5 -bonded structure analogous to ferrocene. The Ga species exhibits only marginal stability, while the boron compound is described as ™tightly squeezed∫ presumably because of the high effective charge of the boron cation. It is noteworthy that the unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl (Cp) analogues of these cations are not known. In recent work, we employed bulky phosphinimide ligands as steric equivalents to cyclopentadienyl in the development of new active olefin polymerization catalysts. [4,5] Herein, we employ this concept in the formation of a steric Figure 1. 3 H NMR spectrum of crude 6 (slow addition of TiCl 4 ) dissolved in CD 2 Cl 2 acquired with simultaneous 1 H-and 2 H-decoupling (288 K, 640 MHz, 5-kHz spectral width, 2.8-s repetition time).strategy for the synthesis of chiral N,N-ditosylmethylamine is an improvement on the Floss approach: [7b] 5 steps compared to 7 in previous reports, and an overall yield of 30 %, compared to < 5 % in the Floss synthesis. Our strategy affords chiral ditosylmethylamine with 66 % ee (62 % for the Schmidt degradation) and can also be used to synthesize the opposite enantiomer starting from commercially available (1R,2S)-2amino-1,2-diphenylethanol.