Much interest has been focused on the catalytic, direct conversion of alkyne C À H bonds through C À C bond-forming reactions without the stoichiometric generation of acetylides. [1] One of the most widely used procedures for such an atom-economical process is the nucleophilic alkynylation of carbonyl compounds, a,b-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, or related electrophiles, in which catalytically generated metal acetylides often play a key role. [2, 3] Recent attention has focused on the development of asymmetric variants of these nucleophilic alkynylation reactions for the synthesis of highly functionalized chiral alkyne derivatives. [4,5] Besides these nucleophilic alkynylation reactions, hydroalkynylation, i.e. the addition of alkyne C À H bonds, across unactivated carbon-carbon multiple bonds has attracted increasing attention. [1b] After extensive studies on the homoand cross-dimerization reactions of alkynes using rhodium, palladium, and nickel catalysts, [6] hydroalkynylation has been extended to carbon-carbon double bonds, such as those in allenes and cyclopropenes. [7,8] However, the scope of the hydroalkynylation reaction is still significantly limited. [9,10] As a consequence, no successful catalytic asymmetric hydroalkynylation reactions have been established, except for the rhodium-catalyzed hydroalkynylation of allenes. [10] We recently showed that bulky triisopropylsilylacetylene underwent addition to C = C bonds in 1,3-dienes, norbornene, styrenes, and methylenecyclopropanes in the presence of nickel triorganophosphine catalysts. [9] The relatively narrow scope for the choice of phosphine ligands in these reactions could be a major difficulty in applying this system to asymmetric synthesis. Herein, we report the nickel-catalyzed asymmetric hydroalkynylation reactions of 1-aryl-1,3-butadienes involving the essential use of taddol-derived phosphoramidite ligands (taddol = 2,2-dimethyl-a,a,a',a'-tetraphenyldioxolane-4,5-dimethanol). In addition to the significance of the chiral ligands, the use of a terminal alkyne that contains an a-siloxy-sec-alkyl group on the alkynyl carbon is important to achieve sufficient reaction efficiency.