The present invention relates to the field of asymmetric
catalysis and
organic synthesis, and specifically provides a
general method for generating
axial chirality by means of a chiral companion strategy. The features and concept of the method are: a chiral aromatic
tertiary amine compound without a
nitrogen chiral center is subjected to intramolecular chiral oxidation to induce the formation of a new aromatic
tertiary amine N-
oxide (NO) chiral center. Due to the
structural rigidity of the chiral aromatic
tertiary amine N-
oxide compound, when the steric hindrance of different substituents Rb and Rs connected to ortho positions of an aromatic ring is relatively large, the rotation of the aromatic ring is hindered, and new rotation-hindered
axial chirality is generated while an aromatic
tertiary amine chiral N-
oxide center is formed. By means of the method and by regulating the structural and functional characteristics of the different substituents Rb and Rs, various axial chiral ligands, chiral small-molecule catalysts, pharmaceutical and
agrochemical intermediates, and chiral synthons can be prepared. The present invention has important scientific and application values for the design, synthesis, and application of chiral ligands, chiral catalysts, especially ligands and catalysts containing
axial chirality, and chiral compounds having special functions.