“…The use of conjugate nitro‐1,3‐enynes and related derivatives in this protocol has received much attention in recent years, including 2‐nitro‐1,3‐enynes ( 1 ), 1‐nitro‐1,3‐enynes ( 2 ) and alkyne‐tethered nitroalkenes ( 3 ) . Numerous chemical scaffolds that include nitrochromans (Xu), pyrano‐annulated derivatives (Chen,, Samanta, Singh), substituted pyrrole/thiophenes (Punniyamurthy),‐ tetrahydrofuranyl ethers (Krause, Alexakis), spirooxindole (Zhou), pyrano‐annulated pyrazoles (Enders), and spiropyrazolones (Schoenebeck, Enders) were prepared using these electron deficient enynes under either organocatalytic reaction conditions or sequential organocatalysis and metal catalysis (Figure ).…”