This report describes the development of a chiral Brønsted acid-catalyzed asymmetric MoritaBaylis À Hillman (MBH) reaction of cyclohexenone with aldehydes. During the course of our studies on chiral Lewis acid-promoted MBH reactions, we discovered that chiral binaphthol-derived Brønsted acids serve as promoters of the asymmetric MBH reaction. We propose that the phosphonium enolate of cyclohexenone is stabilized via hydrogen-bonding with the binaphthol-derived Brønsted acid, creating a chiral nucleophile. A practical and efficient set of conditions was developed using stoichiometric PEt 3 as the nucleophilic promoter and catalytic amounts of a binaphthol-derived Brønsted acid to effect the reaction of cyclohexenone with various aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes in good yields and enantiomeric excesses (up to 96% ee).