Oxindoles constitute a common structural motif in various natural products and biologically active compounds.[1] Among them, 3-aryl-3-hydroxy-2-oxindoles are a useful class of compounds found in several drug candidates.[2–4] For example, compound A (SM-130686) is a potent growth hormone secretagogue [2] and compound B shows a high affinity for the arginine-vasopressin (AVP) V1b receptors and/or the ocytocin (OT) receptors (Figure 1).[3] Owing to the significance of this structural motif, the development of a catalytic asymmetric synthesis of these compounds is highly valuable, and the asymmetric arylation of isatins would be the most straightforward approach to this end. To the best of our