Metal‐Free Deoxygenation of Chiral Nitroalkanes: An Easy Entry to α‐Substituted Enantiomerically Enriched Nitriles

A metal‐free, mild and chemodivergent transformation involving nitroalkanes has been developed. Under optimized reaction conditions, in the presence of trichlorosilane and a tertiary amine, aliphatic nitroalkanes were selectively converted into amines or nitriles. Furthermore, when chiral β‐substituted nitro compounds were reacted, the stereochemical integrity of the stereocenter was maintained and α‐functionalized nitriles were obtained with no...