“…Thus, the advent in the early 1990 s of the enantioselective alkylation of amino acid imines under PTC conditions catalyzed by quaternized Cinchona alkaloids, [3] pioneered by ODonnell [4] and improved by Corey [5] and Lygo, [6] allowed one to obtain impressive degrees of enantioselection using a very simple procedure. Moreover, dimeric, [7] trimeric [8] and even dendrimeric [9] Cinchona alkaloid-derived catalysts, as well as non-Cinchona-derived species such as spiro ammonium [10] and phosphonium salts, [11] TAD-DOL [12a, b] and other tartaric derivatives, [12c, d] guanidinium salts, [12e] binaphthyl-derived amines [12b,13] and salenmetal complexes [14] have also been used in this kind of asymmetric PTC alkylations.…”