An efficient asymmetric Friedel–Crafts reaction has been developed for the synthesis of optically active quaternary α-aminophosphonates with up to 98% ee. The synthesis involves the reaction of cyclic α-ketiminophosphonates with indoles using an H8-BINOL-derived chiral phosphoric acid (CPA) catalyst that bears electron-withdrawing 3,5-ditrifluoromethylphenyl substituents on its 3- and 3′-positions. This Friedel–Crafts reaction of cyclic α-ketiminophosphonates was also successful with pyrrole.