Treatment of beta,beta-disubstituted-alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones bearing a ketone residue with in situ generated, catalytic CuH ligated by a nonracemic ligand leads to three newly created adjacent chiral centers. Excellent de's and ee's are obtained for several examples studied.
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