A new general route for preparing enantiomerically pure P-stereogenic phosphine oxides has been developed by exploiting the Staudinger reaction between racemic tertiary phosphines and an enantiomerically pure organoazide. The resulting phosphinimines are easily resolved by either crystallization or flash chromatography and serve as synthetic intermediates toward enantiomerically pure phosphine oxides.Asymmetric synthesis mediated by transition metals bearing enantiomerically pure phosphine ligands has become a cornerstone of organic chemistry and has allowed for the preparation of a variety of complex natural products. 1 As a result, much effort has been directed toward the rational design, synthesis, and testing of new enantiomerically pure phosphines for various synthetic purposes. A diverse range of enantiomerically pure phosphines is now commercially available, and numerous other ligands have been reported in the literature. 2 Among these known phosphines, however, the vast majority of examples are predicated upon carbonbased central or axial chirality rather than asymmetry about a tetrahedral phosphorus atom. The low abundance of P-stereogenic phosphines for asymmetric transformations is due, in part, to the relative difficulty of obtaining such compounds by resolution procedures or diastereoselective synthesis. 3 While there have been several recent advances in the diastereoselective synthesis of P-stereogenic materials, 4 there are still relatively few resolution methods available for obtaining enantiomerically pure tertiary phosphines. We herein report a new, simple, and effective method for obtaining P-stereogenic phosphine oxides using an enantiomerically pure organoazide resolving agent.We rationalized that a Staudinger reaction between a racemic tertiary phosphine and an enantiomerically pure azide could potentially furnish a 1:1 mixture of diastereomeric phosphinimines if the PdN bond rotational barrier was low enough to prevent geometrical isomerism. 5 To our delight, treatment of racemic phosphine 1a with (1S)-camphorsulfonyl azide 2 6 afforded an equimolar mixture of dia- †