Fig. 1: Working hypothesis.

a Selected bioactive molecules containing chiral α-tertiary hydrazine. b Known strategies for catalytic asymmetric synthesis of α-tertiary hydrazine. c Our previous work on Cu-catalyzed asymmetric propargylic amination enabled by sterically confined PYBOX ligands. d This work, enantioselective propargylic hydrazination to generate α-tertiary ethynylhydrazines.