Methodologies involving chiral resolution, chiral auxiliary induced transformations, and asymmetric catalytic reactions, including those catalyzed by metal, biological, and organic catalysts, have been developed and, typically, these processes have exploited optically pure catalysts to ensure high enantioselectivity. In these reactions, the enantiomeric excess (ee) of the reaction product was linearly proportional to the ee value of the chiral catalyst or auxiliary. However, chemists have observed numerous exceptions to this linear relationship, some characterized by a positive nonlinear correlation between the ee value of the reaction product and that of the chiral catalyst or auxiliary. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] This phenomenon, termed asymmetric amplification, has not only provided cost effective asymmetric synthetic protocols in comparison with those using enantiomerically pure catalysts, but has also been considered a basis for the origin of homochirality in nature. [8][9] In the last decades, metal-based asymmetric amplified catalysis has undergone great advances.[6] Recent applications of asymmetric amplification in organocatalysis, particularly the use of biologically relevant molecules such as amino acids as catalysts, have advanced the long standing inquiry into the evolution of homochirality in the prebiotic system. [10][11][12][13] However, the importance of asymmetric amplification in reactions catalyzed by phosphoric acids and its derivatives, [14][15][16][17][18] an important class of pentavalent phosphorus compounds relevant to nucleic acids, has been less recognized. [19] During our studies on the phosphoric acid catalyzed Biginelli reaction, [20] we found a strong positive nonlinear effect (NLE) for the reaction of para-nitrobenzaldehyde (2), thiourea (3), and ethyl acetoacetate (4) in the presence of 10 mol % of the non-enantiopure 3,3'-ditriphenylsilyl binolderived phosphoric acid 1 a in toluene (Figure 1 a).[21] In contrast, an absolutely linear effect was observed for the same reaction under almost identical reaction conditions except that chloroform was used as the reaction medium instead of toluene (Figure 1 b). Kinetic studies revealed that the optically pure phosphoric acid afforded a much faster reaction in toluene (Figure 1 c), but in chloroform, the optically pure and the racemic catalysts exhibited comparable catalytic activities (Figure 1 d). Similarly, electron-rich benzaldehydes also participated in the reaction to show similar positive NLE as exemplified by 2-methylbenzaldehyde (see the Supporting Information). The strong dependence of the NLE upon the solvent prompted us to investigate this observation in detail. In proline-catalyzed reactions, the nature of the solvent played a distinct role in the NLE, and this role was attributed to the solubility differences between racemic and optically pure samples. [12][13] In the phosphoric acid catalyzed Biginelli reaction, we speculated that the significant dependence of the asymmetric amplification upon the solvent is also Figure 1. Asymm...