Different chiral cyclic amino acid alkali metal and ammonium salts were used as catalysts for the asymmetric Michael addition of aldehydes to nitrostyrene. The reaction yield and stereoselectivity depend slightly on the salt cation. The highest yield of the reaction (up to 100%) was obtained with (S)-morpholine-3-carboxylic acid salts, which gave moderate to good enantioselectivities (up to 72% ee) and diastereoselectivities (dr up to 89:11) whereas the highest selectivity was obtained with proline sodium salt (ee 88%).