addition reactions with eight chiral Li-amide bases, 1 - 8, and five [Cr(arene)(CO)3] complexes, 9 - 13, were investigated. Restriction of conformational freedom in the chiral Li-amide base Li-1, in general, did not result in an increase in asymmetric induction. A new route to enantiomerically enriched (75 - 92%) planarchiral ortho-substituted benzaldehyde complexesvia enantioselective lithiation of