A solely planar chiral pseudo-C-2-symmetric ferrocene-based P,S-chelating 2 was prepared and applied to some asymmetric reactions. Although a poor enantioselectivity is obtained in the asymmetric allylic alkylation (AAA) of rac-8 using the Pd complex bearing the PS-hybrid ligand 2, it is noteworthy that this result is superior to that obtained using the C-2-symmetric bisphosphine counterpart of 2. The intermolecular asymmetric heck reaction (AHR) of 11 with aryl triflates catalyzed by another palladium complex containing 2 was also carried out. Although both relatively low reactivity and poor enantioselectivity were obtained, a high regioselectivy favoring the 2,5-dihydrofuran derivative (14) over the regioisomeric 2,3-dihydrofuran derivative (15) was observed in this study. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.