were successfully hydrogen-ated to the corresponding tetrahydroquinolines, tetrahydro-quinoxalines, and indolines with more than 90% ee by usinghomogeneous transition-metal catalysts or Bronsted acidorganocatalysts. However, despitethe effort put into this areainthelastyears,somevaluableclassesofsubstrates,especially(non-N) heterocycles, such as furans, thiophenes, benzofur-ans, and benzothiophenes, are much less explored and stillconstitute a challenge for the field of asymmetric hydro-genation.Therefore,newefficientandhighlyenantioselectivemethodologies that permit access to the correspondingreduced analogues are highly desirable.There are numerous reports on the synthesis of 2,3-dihydrobenzofurans.