The Diels-Alder reaction of chiral 2-alkylsulfinyl-1-nitroalkene 1 and Danishefsky's diene (2) afforded adducts 3 and 4 in good chemical yield with a high enantiomeric excess, while diastereomeric nitroalkene 7 gave 8 and 9, enantiomeric to 3 and 4, respectively.