Cinchona alkaloids have been satisfactorily bound via their vinyl groups to crosslinked polymers containing thiol residues. The products have been used to catalyse one or more of the following Michael additions: the additions of (I ) thio-p-cresol, (2) p-chlorothiophenol, and (3) thiobenzoic acid to cyclohex-2-en-1 -one, and (4) of toluene-a-thiol to 2-nitrostyrene. The steric course of reactions (1 )-( 3) is dominated by the configurations of C-8 and C-9 in the alkaloids, but the nature of the C-3 group does have an effect and this probably explains why the optical yields obtained using the polymersupported catalysts were lower than those obtained using the free alkaloids. The optical yields obtained in reaction (4), though small, did not follow this pattern. The polymers afforded higher optical yields than the free alkaloids and, in one case, the predominant enantiomer was of opposite configuration.One of the most attractive types of asymmetric synthesis is that in which chiral products are generated from achiral substrates under the influence of chiral catalysts. Polymer-supported versions of such catalysts are especially attractive.2 They are not only easily removed from the reaction product, but it may also be possible to re-use them, thereby making it economic to synthesize complex catalysts in order to achieve high enantiomeric excesses.To assess the effect of binding chiral catalysts to polymer supports we have bound cinchonidine (l), cinchonine (2), quinine (3), and quinidine (4) to crosslinked polystyrenes via their vinyl groups, and compared their catalytic properties in Michael reactions with those of the unbound alkaloids. We now report the results.