Abstract: Chiral amino alcohols are one of the most widely employed types of ligands for asymmetric catalysis.In this paper,the easily prepared chiral tertiary amino alcohol L*,which was derived from L-phenylalanine,was found to catalyze the reaction of alkynylzinc reagents with various aldehydes to generate chiral propargylic alcohols with moderate-to-good enantioselectivities up to 78.9% e.e.