A synergistic effect is observed for the combination of a neutral dinuclear gold complex with a chiral silver phosphate in the intramolecular hyroalkoxylation of allenes to give furan derivatives in high yields and enantioselectivities. The monocationic dinuclear gold complex affords higher catalytic activity and enantioselectivity than the neutral or dicationic digold complexes. The synergistic effect is thus highly promising to provide a guiding principle in designing an efficient chiral environment for creating an asymmetric catalyst.Keywords: asymmetric activation; chiral anion; chirality control; gold catalyst; hydroalkoxylation; synergistic effectRegarding new frontiers of asymmetric catalyst systems, a variety of highly efficient chiral ligands have been developed that dramatically increase the catalytic activity and enantioselectivity.[1] An asymmetric catalyst is usually constructed by a proper combination of chiral ligand and central metal. An asymmetric catalyst can be further evolved into a more activated catalyst to give higher catalytic activity and enantioselectivity with a chiral activator as an additional chiral source; for this process, we have previously coined the term asymmetric activation.[2] A synergistic effect has been observed where the matched pair with the additional chiral source (R or S) can lead to higher catalytic activity and enantioselectivity than the mismatched one (S or R).Recently, highly efficient asymmetric catalyst systems based on chiral anions, [3] especially those with a binaphthyl backbone, have been reported to induce high levels of enantioselectivity. [4,5,6] List defined the concept as asymmetric counteranion-directed catalysis (ACDC) in a general strategy for asymmetric catalysis.[5] The catalytic systems through the combination of chiral or achiral amines and chiral phosphate anions have been developed in transfer hydrogenation, [5a,b] allylation, [5c] and epoxidation [5d-f] with highto-excellent yield and enantioselectivity. As another important breakthrough, Toste and co-workers have also developed the chiral anion strategy for asymmetric transition metal catalysis for highly enantioselective hydroamination, [6] hydroalkoxylation, [6] and hydrocarboxylation [6a] reactions of allenic fragments by a gold catalyst bearing both chiral or achiral diphosphine ligand and chiral phosphate anion.On the other hand, we have found that the axial chirality of gold complexes bearing tropos BIPHEP ligands [BIPHEP = bis(phosphanyl)biphenyl], [7] which are highly modular, versatile, and easy to synthesize without enantiomer resolution, could be controlled by the phosphate and the corresponding N-triflyl phosphoramide as chiral anions (Scheme 1).[8] The axial chirality of BIPHEP-(AuCl) 2 complexes could also be memorized due to the Au À Au contact even after the dissociation of chiral anions. Treatment of the enantiopure BIPHEP-(AuCl) 2 complexes with two equivalents of Ag salt thus facilitated the intramolecular hydroamination of allenes as an atropos asymmetric...