β‐Nitroacrylates: A Versatile and Growing Class of Functionalized Nitroalkenes

Abstract β‐Nitroacrylates are an important subclass of nitroolefins in which an ester and a nitro group are simultaneously linked, in α‐ and β‐positions, to a double bond. This peculiarity makes these nitro derivatives highly reactive with a plethora of nucleophiles, very often under extremely mild reaction conditions, and thus they can serve as excellent building blocks towards highly functionalized materials. Based on the growing application of β‐nitroacrylates in organic synthesis, we considered it to be useful to highlight in this review the most important results obtained over the last ten years. magnified image