the corresponding cyclohexenones 4 with a remote chiral all‐carbon quaternary center at the γ position is described. Chiral rhodium–bis(oxazolinyl)phenyl complexes 1 were effective catalysts for this transformation. This catalytic system was extended to the asymmetric transformation of spirocarbocyclic cyclohexadienones 5 to give the corresponding products 6 with highenantiomeric ratios.
A new method for chiral diamine-catalyzed Robinson-type annulation was developed to construct cyclohexenone derivatives bearing a quaternary carbon stereogenic center at the 4-position in high enantiomeric excess. This method was successfully applied to the short synthesis of (+)-sporochnol A.