A facile and convenient synthesis of acetic nitronic anhydrides from aliphatic nitroalkenes and lithium ketone enolates and the efficient conversion of these anhydrides to 1,4-diketones, alkylpyrroles, diketone monooximes, dihydro-1,2-oxazines, pyrrolidines, 2-hydroxypyrrolidines, and 1-pyrrolines are recorded.