A series of typical nitrone and nitrile oxide derivatives was generated in situ from the corresponding sulfonylated a-allylamino aldehydes and aldoximes, which afforded isoxazolidine and isoxazoline fused heterocycles by intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions with a high degree of diastereoselectivity. The structure as well as the absolute stereochemistry of the products were confirmed by extensive 2D-NMR spectroscopy and single crystal X-ray analyses and the reasons for the observed selectivity were explained by the energy calculations of the transition states using semiemprical (MOPAC AM1 and MOPAC PM3) and ab initio methods (3-21G* and 6-31G*).Reactions in which the formation of a new carbon-carbon or carbon-heteroatom bond provide new stereogenic centers with a high level of enantio-and diastereoselectivity are of special interest for asymmetric synthesis. 1 The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition is such a reaction, which conserves the stereochemistry of the alkene, and in which, a stereocenter on the dipole is often able to influence the relative stereochemistry of the newly formed stereogenic centers in the product. 2 Even greater stereocontrol is possible when both reactants are a part of the same molecule, the intramolecular nature, which often enhances the stereoselectivity of the cyclization process. 3,4 As a result, this type of cyclization could be applied to the synthesis of targeted macromolecules, for example, sugar derivatives, 5 b-lactams, 6 amino acids, 7 alkaloids 8 and other interesting classes of compounds. Also, considerable attention has been paid to a basic survey of this process but the general rules for the regio-and stereoselectivities are still obscure. 9 Among the other 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions, the intramolecular nitrone olefin cycloaddition and intramolecular nitrile oxide olefin cycloaddition have been of considerable synthetic and mechanistic interest, 10,11 especially since the resulting heterocycles can serve as precursors of synthetic equivalents, 12 such as amino alcohols, 13 and hydroxy ketones, 14 or other functional groups. 15 More closely, while isoxazoli(di)nes are very readily available, their potential as latent synthetic equivalents has only recently begun to be realized. 16 On the other hand, the dipolarophilic activity of the C-C double, triple or heteromultiple bonds depends significantly on the belonging substituents and the introduction of electron-donating or electron-withdrawing substituents on the dipole or the alkene can alter the relative frontier orbital energies, [17][18] which could influence the reactivity as well as the selectivity of the process. 19 Recently, we have described a series of chiral auxiliary controlled diastereoselective intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions of sulfonyl-substituted trienes. 20 In this paper, we report a series of intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of nitrones and nitrile oxides with alkenes having an electron-withdrawing substituent and which contain a chiral auxiliary at the allylic position. In additio...