The introduction of chiral bisphosphine ligands and especially the C2 symmetric 2, 2′-bis (diphenylphosphino)-1, 1′-binaphthyl (BINAP) has provided synthetic chemists with highly enantioselective catalysts for a multitude of asymmetric transformations. 1 BINAP is designed so that the axially chiral backbone of the binaphthyl system is used as a scaffold for the placement of the diphenylphosphino groups. Recently, planar chiral molecular ...