1 Departamento de Química Orgánica I, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados "Lucio Lascaray"- Facultad de Farmacia , University of the Basque Country , UPV/EHU Paseo de la Universidad 7 , 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz , Spain.
Chiral phosphoric acids efficiently catalyze the asymmetric Friedel-Crafts reaction of several indoles with α-iminophosphonates to afford enantioenriched hybrid α-aminophosphonate functionalized indole derivatives.